ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

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Jonathan Robie
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ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

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For Luke 10, the Expositor's Greek Testament makes what seems to be a literary reference, but it went right past me :lol:.
... as ships may pass by other ships in distress, so deserving ever after to have branded on them ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ.
Does anyone recognize what this is meant to refer to?
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Was the Expositor's New Testament written for people who might have been familiar with a poem
[i]Carmina moralia[/i], by Gregorius Nazianzenus wrote:Ἀλλήλους μὲν ἐγώ τε καὶ ὁ χρόνος, ὡς πετεηνὰ Ἢ νέες ἐν πελάγει ἀντιπαρερχόμεθα, [755]
Ἑσταὸς οὐδὲν ἔχοντες·
Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
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Re: ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

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Stephen Hughes wrote:Was the Expositor's New Testament written for people who might have been familiar with a poem
[i]Carmina moralia[/i], by Gregorius Nazianzenus wrote:Ἀλλήλους μὲν ἐγώ τε καὶ ὁ χρόνος, ὡς πετεηνὰ
Ἢ νέες ἐν πελάγει ἀντιπαρερχόμεθα, [755]
Ἑσταὸς οὐδὲν ἔχοντες·
I like this -- makes me think of all sorts of variants ...
T.S.Eliot, Burnt Norton wrote:At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
and
Shakespeare, [i]The Tempest[/i], Act 4, Scene 1 wrote:Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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