The spirit of "νυν" ?
Posted: November 14th, 2024, 7:49 am
τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ νῦν ἐνεργοῦντος ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), Eph 2:2. (Just giving credit to the source text here)
I am not working on my homework, though I am at home and working on this. I am 63 and studying Ephesians. I see that consensus is clearly to translate this sentence as "The spirit which is now at work in the sons of disobedience." In looking at this sentence in the context I am thinking that there might be some reason to read it as "the spirit of ‘now’ which is at work in the sons of disobedience,” where “the spirit of now” is a kind of zeitgeist. According to BDG the νυν with article can have the meaning of this present time/age. Is this a possibility or do other points of grammar not allow for this reading?
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), Eph 2:2. (Just giving credit to the source text here)
I am not working on my homework, though I am at home and working on this. I am 63 and studying Ephesians. I see that consensus is clearly to translate this sentence as "The spirit which is now at work in the sons of disobedience." In looking at this sentence in the context I am thinking that there might be some reason to read it as "the spirit of ‘now’ which is at work in the sons of disobedience,” where “the spirit of now” is a kind of zeitgeist. According to BDG the νυν with article can have the meaning of this present time/age. Is this a possibility or do other points of grammar not allow for this reading?