Lk.21:21 and Asclep.Tact.1.3 ἐν μέσῳ as middle ground
Posted: January 27th, 2017, 3:37 am
How about this?
Perhaps also;
In terms of battlefield deployment, seen from an overview observer's point of view, the middle section of a company of soldiers consisted of the light troops. The troops in the central section, were not the heavily armed frontline troops, nor the slingers or archers. They were a little distant from the front line.Asclepiodotus, [i]Tactica[/i], 1.3 wrote:ἔστι γὰρ αὐτῆς εἴδη τρία, τὸ μὲν τὸ ἐγγύθεν μαχόμενον, τὸ δὲ πόρρωθεν, τὸ δὲ μέσον.
When used in terms of specifying distance, rather than that something is surrounded - the phrases οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ and οἱ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς (Ἰουδαίας) seem to be differentiated and in what coukd be a sequence of increasing distance from Ἰουδαία.Luke 21:21 wrote:Τότε οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ φευγέτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὄρη· καὶ οἱ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς ἐκχωρείτωσαν· καὶ οἱ ἐν ταῖς χώραις μὴ εἰσερχέσθωσαν εἰς αὐτήν.
Perhaps also;
with ἐνώπιον being a short distance the foreground, ἐν μέσῳ being "at a middle distance (in the scene) (from the throne)" (beyond the glass), and ἐν κύκλῳ describing the shape of the arrangement.Revelation 4:6 wrote:καὶ ἐνώπιον τοῦ θρόνου ὡς θάλασσα ὑαλίνη, ὁμοία κρυστάλλῳ. Καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ θρόνου καὶ κύκλῳ τοῦ θρόνου τέσσαρα ζῷα γέμοντα ὀφθαλμῶν ἔμπροσθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν.