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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 28 22:33:57 EST 2007


I don't think so.  Consider the negative statement of this in Rom 7.15

οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω τοῦτο πράσσω, 

OU GAR hO QELW TOUTO PRASSW

Μέλλω [MELLW] is generally used to indicate the futurity of an event.  Consider Re 1.19

γράψον οὖν ἃ εἶδες καὶ ἃ εἰσὶν καὶ ἃ μέλλει γενέσθαι μετὰ ταῦτα. 

GRAYON OUN hA EIDES KAI hA EISIN KAI hA MELLEI GENESQAI META TAUTA

or Re 2.10

μηδὲν φοβοῦ ἃ μέλλεις πάσχειν. 

MHDEN FOBOU hA MELLEIS PASXEIN

In these it is the futurity of things which is asserted.

 
george
gfsomsel
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Webb Mealy <webb at selftest.net>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:55:26 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] TI MELLEIS POIEIN (Acts 22:26)

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?



Webb Mealy


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