[B-Greek] ASWTIA and SWZW?
Ted & Robin Shoemaker
shoes6 at juno.com
Wed Feb 4 16:13:57 EST 2009
Hello B-Greekers,
Reading Eph 5:18 today, I discovered the word ASWTIA, which is sometimes rendered in English as "drunkenness", "dissipation", "excess", or the like.
According to Abbott-Smith (1973), ASWTIA is based on A + SWZW.
How?
If Abbott-Smith is correct (and I'm in no position to better my lexicon), ASWTIA might well be rendered "the condition of not being saved".
How do we get from there to "dissipation"? If ASWTIA had been first used by NT writers, I could assume that they were trying to make a theological point. But I see that ASWTIA translates some Hebrew words, so I presume that it was in use by the time of the LXX.
Please help me get a grasp on the sense of these apparently related words: SWZW and ASWTIA.
I already googled the b-greek archives and found nothing there to answer this question.
Thank you.
Ted Shoemaker
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is not a Constitutional right.
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