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ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

Posted: September 26th, 2015, 8:59 pm
by Jonathan Robie
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?

Re: ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

Posted: September 27th, 2015, 12:06 pm
by Stephen Hughes
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]
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Re: ΑΝΤΙΠΑΡΗΛΘΕΝ ... with respect to ships?

Posted: September 27th, 2015, 2:03 pm
by cwconrad
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]
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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.