[B-Greek] Acts 5:3-4
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Dec 5 15:31:41 EST 2009
The bit from Aeschylus' Agamemnon is in fact Cassandra, explaining to the chorus, why Apollo made her foretell things but never be believed; she says, "I had consented (to sex with him), but I played Apollo false."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
On Saturday, December 05, 2009, at 03:14PM, "yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net" <yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>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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>On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Tom Moore wrote:
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>> I posed this same question two years ago:
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=pseudomai+site%3Aibiblio.org
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>> Though my conjecture was shot down, it still makes the most sense to me.
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>> I think in Acts 5:3, Ananias is lying *about* the holy spirit (YEUDOMAI + acc.), by misrepresenting the holy spirit as being the motivator behind his actions.
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>> Εἶπεν δὲ ὁ Πέτρος, Ἁνανία, διὰ τί ἐπλήρωσεν ὁ σατανᾶς τὴν καρδίαν σου, ψεύσασθαί σε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ νοσφίσασθαί ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς τοῦ χωρίου;
>> EIPEN DE hO PETROS, hANANIA, DIA TI EPLHRWSEN hO SATANAS THN KARDIAN SOU, YEUSASQAI SE TO PNEUMA TO hAGION, KAI NOSFISASQAI APO THS TIMHS TOU CWRIOU;
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>> In Acts 5:4, Ananias is lying *to* God (YEUDOMAI + dat.).
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>> Οὐχὶ μένον σοὶ ἔμενεν, καὶ πραθὲν ἐν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ὑπῆρχεν; Τί ὅτι ἔθου ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο; Οὐκ ἐψεύσω ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ τῷ θεῷ.
>> OUCI MENON SOI EMENEN, KAI PRAQEN EN THi SHi EXOUSIA hUPHRCEN; TI hOTI EQOU EN THi KARDIAi SOU TO PRAGMA TOUTO; OUK EYEUSW ANQRWPOIS, ALLA TWi QEWi
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>> Regards,
>> Tom Moore
>> www.katabiblon.com
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>>> -------Original Message-------
>>> From: timothy mcmahon <targum at msn.com>
>>> Subject: [B-Greek] Acts 5:3-4
>>> Sent: Dec 05 '09 03:39
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>>> Two roughly parallel statements in Acts 5:3-4… YEUSASQAI… TO PNEUMA and EYEUSW TW QEW. Any significance here in the use of the two different cases after YEUDOMAI?
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