[B-Greek] Acts 5:3-4

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Sat Dec 5 15:23:29 EST 2009


My apologies, a correction. It was Josephus' retelling, not BDAG's:

LSJ has some good examples of ψευσασθαι τινά τι. YEUSASQAI TINA TI is to deceive someone in a thing. Similarly, with just the accusative it means "to deceive by lies, cheat," for example, from Aechylus, Agamemnon  ξυναινέσασα Λοξίαν ἐψευσάμην, XUNAISESASA LOXIAN EYEUSAMHN "when I swore, I lied/deceived Apollo." BDAG gives several other examples. A particularly good one is Josephus' (Ant. of the Jews 3.273) retelling of the test for adultery from Numbers 5: ψευσαμένη δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα ἐπὶ τοῖς γάμοις καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅρκοις YEUSAMENH DE TON ANDRA EPI TOIS GAMOIS KAI TON QEON EPI TOIS ORKOIS "but if [the woman] had lied to her husband about her marriage vows and to God concerning the oath, she died in a shameful manner."

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> LSJ has some good examples of ψευσασθαι τινά τι YEUSASQAI TINA TI is to deceive someone in a thing. Similarly, with just the accusative it means "to deceive by lies, cheat," for example, from Aechylus, Agamemnon  ξυναινέσασα Λοξίαν ἐψευσάμην, XUNAISESASA LOXIAN EYEUSAMHN "when I swore, I lied/deceived Apollo." BDAG gives several other examples. A particularly good one is his retelling of the test for adultery from Numbers 5: ψευσαμένη δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα ἐπὶ τοῖς γάμοις καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅρκοις YEUSAMENH DE TON ANDRA EPI TOIS GAMOIS KAI TON QEON EPI TOIS ORKOIS "but if [the woman] had lied to her husband about her marriage vows and to God concerning the oath, she died in a shameful manner."




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