[B-Greek] Rev 10:6 CRONOS time or delay
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Jun 27 04:14:57 EDT 2007
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From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Rev 10:6 CRONOS time or delay
> CRONOS 'time'. In Rev 10:6, should it be understood as 'delay'? If so,
> on what basis? (? paraphrase). If it should be rendered as 'time', how
> should the text be understood?
>
> hOTI CRONOS OUKETI ESTAI ...
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Oun Kwon.
CRONOS can mean a point in time, a time period or an opportunity/time window.
The English word "delay" is in my opinion a misleading translation since it has a connotation of "a
time period beyond what was planned", a sense that it is not present or implied in CRONOS. I assume
the delay came in because of the future verb and OUKETI. The future could be captured by "there will
soon be no more time left (to final judgement)".
In common English the meaning could be given as "time is running out" or "there is not much time
left".
Gute Nachricht: Die Frist ist abgelaufen! (The grace period is over)
The KJV rendering "there should be time no longer" is also misleading. It could be interpreted as if
time as a concept would cease to exist. Since it is poor and ambiguous English it could be
interpreted in other ways, too.
Iver Larsen
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