[B-Greek] Rev 10:6 CRONOS time or delay

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 07:44:55 EDT 2007


Thanks to all; your clarification has been things gift-wrapped for me.
How else I can tap all the knowledge and experience without this
wonderful world of scholarly e-mail discussion group!  Imagine trying
to exchange ideas through overseas slow mail system!  Thank God for
the technology.

As to BAGD examples per Harold, suggesting 'delay' , it would remain
my task to get access to it and chew on it.

Oun.

On 6/27/07, Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org> wrote:

>
> 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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