[B-Greek] Providing for the Cast Members

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 8 21:33:56 EST 2009


Steve,
 
Yes you are probably reading too much into the text, but
I for one am glad you are.  Like Hamilton versus Jefferson
on the Federal powers in the Constitution, there is nothing
in the text to support your theory, but neither is there anything
in the text to refute it.  Whether Peter had the virtues as a Chorus
in mind or not (I doubt he did) I think he would have liked your
take as well.
 
Mark L.   
--- On Thu, 1/8/09, Steve Miller <steve_miller at sil.org> wrote:

From: Steve Miller <steve_miller at sil.org>
Subject: [B-Greek] Providing for the Cast Members
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 12:05 PM

(II P 1:5) Vincent says, "The verb rendered /add/ (EPICORNGNSATE) is 
derived from COROS, a /chorus/, such as was employed in the 
representation of the Greek tragedies. The verb originally means /to 
bear the expense of a chorus/, which was done by a person selected by 
the state, who was obliged to defray all the expenses of training and 
maintenance. In the New Testament the word has lost this technical 
sense, and is used in the sense of /supplying/ or /providing/." Wuest 
quotes Vincent on the same verse. Vincent goes on to say that the Greek 
means "/to develop one virtue in the exercise of another/."

Is there any indication from the text that maybe Peter did have the 
technical sense of providing for cast members in mind? When I read this 
sense, I got an image of a believer providing the living expenses for 
his own cast members. One cast member is faith, another cast member is 
self-control, and so forth. The believer should pay handsomely to have 
this chorus to sing out for the watching world.

This is not supported by any of the references I have, so I'm wondering 
if I'm reading too much into the text, or if the meaning is really 
there. It is a wonderful image to my mind, and I'd love to keep it.

Steve
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