[B-Greek] Please help with LK 1:54

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 21:11:23 EST 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, nebarry at verizon.net
<nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Original Message:
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> From: Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:09:00 -0500
> To: jayadkins264 at gmail.com, b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Please help with LK 1:54
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>>>"Child" doesn't really belong here at all; this is the standard usage of
> PAIS in the sense of "servant" -- very much like French garçon, or
> erstwhile American usage of "boy" for "servant."<<
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> I think an argument can be made that Luke is using the term with studied
> ambiguity in this context, but that's a discussion that takes us away from
> the Greek.  Of course, if any one wants to pursue it on bibexigesis...  :)
>
> Barry
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If my memory is correct from (prob.) Matthew Black's book:

Aramaic equivalent for PAIS would have same meaning of child as well
as servant.

Mentioned was a word play in Jesus' having a child standing in the
midst of the disciples, in the pericope <Who is greatest> Mt 18:1ff.

Oun Kwon.



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