[B-Greek] Mt 5:33 EPIORKW or How to read a lexicon

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 00:12:48 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Wieland Willker <wie at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>
> You might be interested in the following article:
>
> John A.L. Lee
> "Led Astray by Punctuation - The Meaning of EPIORKW in Matt 5:33"
> NovT 52 (2010) 24-36
>
> Abstract
> The meaning of EPIORKW in Matt 5:33 remains uncertain in the NT lexicon of
> Bauer in English and in major commentaries. This paper traces the problem in
> Bauer to misreading of punctuation. A re-examination of the evidence
> establishes that the appropriate meaning is "break one's sworn promise", and
> this is seen to be the meaning Bauer intended.
>
> http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/not
>
>    Wieland

Interesting article.

Was it spelled EPIORKW in the title? What I can see is PIORK on the
title in the article, which prevents me to read beyond the abstract
without shelling out a hefty fee for an article. May OBUMA come to
rescue ; -  <

While 'beaking an oath' in the Mt text fits better in rhetorical
contrast btw v. 5:33 and v. 5:34, the source OT Lev 19:12 seems to
read in both MT and LXX as 'falsely swear'.

Oun Kwon.



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