[B-Greek] bdelugmos in Rev 21:27 CEV

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 26 12:17:26 EDT 2008


It's a good question.  As for the "dirty" part, you probably
already know that BDEW means "I fart."  POIEW is certainly
broad enough in Greek (not to mention the underlying 
Hebrew) to include mental creations; "I make foul (sc. thoughts.")
Since PSEUDOS is largely a matter of mental activity, I think
the CEV rendering is entirely defensible.  It would go without
saying that you are not going to be allowed to enter the City
while, say, committing adultery or sacrificing to Zeus, but
that your thoughts will not be dirty is more subtle and in
line with the Gospel proclamation of the importance of what
is in one's heart, as opposed to externals.
 
For what it's worth (and it's not worth more than any other
translation) I've been reading the Modern Greek NT and it
retains, I think, the sense of POIEW as doing or making or
working something; OSOI KANOUN (= Ancient Greek KAMNW)
BDELURA KAI PSEUTIKA PRAGMATA.  (I say, "I think"
because I don't actually KNOW Modern Greek, I've just
been reading it.)
 
Mark L.   
 


--- On Sat, 7/26/08, David Housholder <docdeh at gmail.com> wrote:

From: David Housholder <docdeh at gmail.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] bdelugmos in Rev 21:27 CEV
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 7:37 AM

In Revelation 21:27 the CEV translates "ho poiwn bdelugma" as
"dirty-minded." I've been digging around in lexicons and
commentaries and so
far haven't found the reason for that particular translation. The CEV is
the
translation we use with our middle school program, so I need to understand
how to explain this passage.

David Housholder
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