Questions on EIS

From: Leo Percer (PERCERL@baylor.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 26 1996 - 10:37:51 EDT


My thanks to David Moore and Carlton Winbery for pointing me to the proper
lexical versions of EIS as "against." I admit that in my cursory glance
at BAGD I missed the section David pointed out. After looking a second
time, I have one further question. Does EIS obtain the hostile sense
primarily from the verb used with it? In other words, is it the hostile
nature of the verb "blaspheme" that causes the EIS to carry the meaning
of against, or is there some other explanation? If it is the verb that
determines the friendly or hostile sense of EIS, then how does that
effect the reading of our current passage of discussion, Luke 12:10?
It certainly seems to me that "speaking a word" (EREI LOGON) is not
necessarily hostile and may require a friendly interpretation (i.e.,
"speaking a word for the son of man"), which I think is how the original
poster on this thread read the passage. Any suggestions?

Regards,

Leo Percer
PERCERL@BAYLOR.EDU
Waco, TX



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