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

Webb Mealy webb at selftest.net
Thu Nov 29 00:26:40 EST 2007


P.S., Note that BAGD, s.v. MELLW, 1.c.γ., does gloss MELLW as "want" a
couple of times (rendering Martyrdom of Polycarp 13:3; 17:2).

Webb Mealy

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To: 'Carl Conrad'
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TI MELLEIS POIEIN (Acts 22:26)

Dear Carl,

Thanks--that's how it reads to me--but it seems that most of the influential
English translations (AV, NRSV, NASB, TEV, NJB, NLB, CEV, NCV) offer some
version of the panicked "What are you about to do??" interpretation, so I'm
glad to get a seasoned second opinion.

Webb Mealy

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Conrad [mailto:cwconrad2 at mac.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:14 PM
To: Webb Mealy
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TI MELLEIS POIEIN (Acts 22:26)


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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