[B-Greek] Luke 24:21 AUTOS ESTIN hO MELLWN LUTROUSQAI TON ISRAHL

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Apr 4 17:00:38 EDT 2008


On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Webb Mealy wrote:

> hHMEIS DE HLPIZOMEN hOTI AUTOS ESTIN hO MELLWN LUTROUSQAI TON ISRAHL
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> On the surface, these words appear to mean:
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> We were hoping that he’s the one who is going to set Israel free.
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> Is there perhaps some residual hope reflected in the ESTIN hO  
> MELLWN, or is
> use of the present tense simply the normal grammatical way you  
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> We were hoping that he was the one who was going to set Israel free.

I would take this as a periphrasis for "Messiah" in the traditional  
sense of the word: "the one DESTINED to redeem Israel"

That's meaning #1 in LSJ, meaning #2 in BDAG.

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






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