[B-Greek] Luke 17: 20-21
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 15 17:42:57 EDT 2009
In ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστινLk 17:21(cp.Ox654, 16=GTh3=JBL65, ’46, 177; also s. WSchubart, ZNW20, 1921, 215–23), ἐ. ὑμῶνis probably patterned after ἐν σοί(=[God] is among you) Is 45:14, but with Lk preferring ἐντόςin the sense among you, in your midst,either now or suddenly in the near future (cp.X., Hell. 2, 3, 19 ἐ. τούτων, An. 1, 10, 3 ἐ. αὐτῶν[on the relevance of the second X.passage, s. Field, Notes71 and s. Roberts below]; POxy2342, 8 [102 a.d.], of a woman who keeps a supply of wine ἐντὸ αὑτῆ‘under her own control’; Ps 87:6Sym.; cp.Jos., Ant. 6, 315; Arrian, Anab. 5, 22, 4 ἐ. αὐτῶν=in their midst; so NRSVtext, and s. Noack and Bretscher below). The sense within you,in your heartshas linguistic support in Ps 38:4; 102:1; 108:22,all ἐντός μου; s. also Jos., Ant. 5, 107, but Lk generally avoids ref.to God’s reign as a
psychological [Page 341] reality. The passage has invited much debate: AWabnitz, RTQR18, 1909, 221ff; 289ff; 456ff; CBruston, ibid.346ff; BEaston, AJT16, 1912, 275–83; KProost, TT48, 1914, 246ff; JHéring, Le royaume de Dieu et sa venue ’37; PAllen, ET50, ’39, 233–35; ASledd, ibid.235–37; WKümmel, Verheissung u. Erfüllung ’45, 17ff; BNoack, D. Gottesreich bei Lk (17:20–24) ’48; CRoberts, HTR41, ’48, 1–8, citing PRossGeorgIII, 1, 9: ἵνα ἐντός μου αὐτὸ εὕρω; HCadbury, Christian Century 67, ’50, 172f (within your possessionor reach;cp.Tertullian, Adv. Marc. 4, 35), cp.Pol3:3above and JGriffiths, ET63, ’51/52, 30f; HRiesenfeld, Nuntius 2, ’49, 11f; AWikgren, ibid.4, ’50, 27f; PBretscher, CTM15, ’44, 730–66; 22, ’51, 895–907. W. stress on the moral implications, RFrick, Beih. ZNW6, 1928, 6–8, s. ARüstow, ZNW51, ’60, 197–224; JZmijewski, D. Eschatologiereden d. LkEv, ’72, 361–97.
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. (3rd ed.) (s.v. ἐντός). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
george
gfsomsel
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Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 17: 20-21
Luke 17:20-21
20 EPERWTHQEIS DE hUPO TWN FARISAIWN POTE ERXETAI hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU APEKRIQH AUTOIS KAI EIPEN OUK ERXETAI hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU META PARATHRHSEWS 21 OUDE EROUSIN IDOU hWDE H EKEI IDOU GAR hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU ENTOS hUMWN ESTIN
One person says, " The verb eimi is in the present tense indicative which conveys
a simple statement of fact – in the present. Since we agree that Jesus
was addressing the Pharisees, then the kingdom is existing within them
at the time Jesus is speaking. There is no room for equivocation. The
text is clear."
The second person says, "I don't see Jesus telling the Pharisees that the kingdom of God is
actually within them but that they would have to look inwardly and not
outwardly to find it."
Can appeal to grammar resolve the issue? Or is it a matter of one's exegesis (or eisegesis).
Roger Hutchinson
PS: Given the recent discussion about GAR, we find it here where it seems to introduce a contrast.
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