[B-Greek] Acts 5:3 PSEUDOMAI/YEUDOMAI + Acc.
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Feb 26 16:50:49 EST 2008
On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Tom Moore wrote:
> Acts 5:3 is consistently translated: "Peter said, Ananias, why has
> satan filled your heart (for) you to lie *to* the holy spirit?"
>
> But "the holy spirit" is accusative:
>
> ψεύσασθαί σε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον
> YEUSASQAI SE TO PNEUMA TO hAGION
>
> While the very next verse shows lying *to* somebody in the dative
> (Acts 5:4: "You did not lie to men but to God"):
>
> Οὐκ ἐψεύσω ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ τῷ θεῷ
> OUK EYEUSW ANQRWPOIS ALLA TWi QEWi
>
> Can TO PNEUMA TO hAGION be understood instead to be what Ananias
> lied about, rather than to whom Ananias lied: "Why has satan filled
> your heart (for) you to lie *about* [or to mispresent] the holy
> spirit?" (as being the one motivating his actions)? Given 5:4, why
> is "to the holy spirit" even valid?
Cf. BDAG s.v. YEUDOMAI: note the second usage there:
2. to attempt to deceive by lying, tell lies to, impose upon τινὰ
[TINA] someone (Eur., X. et al.; Plut., Alcib. 206 [26, 8], Marcell.
314 [27, 7]; Jos., Ant. 3, 273; 13, 25; PSI 232, 10) Ac 5:3 (Appian,
Liby. 27 §113 τίς σε δαίμων ἔβλαψε . . .
ψεύσασθαι θεοὺς οὓς ὤμοσας; [TIS SE
DAIMWN ... YEUSASQAI QEOUS hOUS WMOSAS?]=‘what evil spirit beguiled
you . . . to lie to the gods by whom you swore?’; Tat. 19, 3
ἑαυτόν [hEAUTON]); 1 Cl 15:4 (Ps 77:36, but w. αὐτῷ
[AUTWi]).—DELG. M-M. TW.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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