[B-Greek] TI MELLEIS POIEIN (Acts 22:26)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Nov 28 22:13:56 EST 2007


On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Webb Mealy wrote:

> Is there any possibility that TI MELLEIS POIEIN (Acts 22:26) means,  
> “What do
> you want to do?”, rather than “What are you about to do?”? In  
> other words,
> is it possible to take the exchange as meaning not that the  
> centurion comes
> up to the chiliarch in a panic, but that he comes up to him asking  
> for any
> change in orders, given the new information that the person is a Roman
> citizen?

I think that the sense here of MELLEIS is "intend" or "propose."
See BDAG s.v. MELLW, 1.c.γ.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)


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