[B-Greek] Form versus Meaning (Was Meaning of EIS in Galatians6:8
Nigel Chapman
nigel at chapman.id.au
Wed Jun 30 02:34:16 EDT 2010
Hi Mark,
There are plenty of ways to indicate instrumentality without pressing EIS
into service. Moreover, it makes no sense here, where the flesh/spirit
returns a harvest. If you sow _using_ a tractor, you don't then harvest
_from_ the tractor. But if you sow _into_ earth, you reap _from_ it a good
or bad harvest, relative to its merits (cf. parable of the sower; kinds of
ground). Hence flesh/spirit are not instruments of sowing in this passage,
but its respective 'fields'. A better modern paraphrase for urbanites
might be "He who invests in Big Petroleum shall receive from Big Petroleum
the dividends of pollution".
Nigel.
On Wed, June 30, 2010 3:56 pm, Iver Larsen wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
> To: <bgreek at global4.freeserve.co.uk>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: 30. juni 2010 04:19
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Form versus Meaning (Was Meaning of EIS in
> Galatians6:8
> ...
> On the other hand, I think
> what George and Barry and Iver have done is what I
> like to call "the original sin of B-Greek." They have allowed form to get
> in the
> way of meaning. I am well
> aware that EIS plus the accusative does not normally
> indicate agency, and maybe it never does, but yes, here
> meaning can stretch that far.
> ------------------------
>
> Hi, Mark,
>
> I am afraid you are confusing form and meaning. The point was the meaning
> of EIS
> in this context. Of course, there is an interplay bewteen the meaning of
> individual words and the meaning of the text as a whole, but you still
> have to
> start from the meaning of the words. You cannot stretch the meaning of a
> text
> beyond what the meaning of the words allow.
>
> Iver Larsen
>
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