[B-Greek] AFISTAMAI or AFISTHMI FOLLOW UP
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 28 09:18:02 EST 2004
Dr. Conrad:
Why wouldn't the UBS dictionary even list AFISTHMI as
an entry?
Eddie
--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:
> At 5:02 AM -0800 3/28/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
> >I've run across AFISTHMI several times in
> Culy/Parsons
> >Acts but the UBS dictionary seems to relate it to
> >AFISTAMAI. Is there any difference between these
> two?
> >
> >Also, I've been led to believe that AFISTAMAI
> denoted
> >a religious or military apostasy, while Luke is
> >comfortable using AFISTHMI as a simple "left" or
> >"departed" without any such implication in some
> >passages. I'm inclined to see AFISTHMI as a verb
> >denoting "departing" regardless of which context it
> is
> >used in, or to ask it another way, does this word
> >denote a certain kind of departure?
>
> (1) You should be careful to distinguish between the
> active AFISTHMI (aor.
> APESTHSA) and the middle AFISTAMAI (aor. APESTHN).
> The active verb means
> "cause to move from a settled position"--it's
> regularly causative; the
> middle verb means "move (oneself) from a settled
> position"--whether that's
> in a concrete sense of a place where one is
> temporarily settled ("leave,
> depart") or in a metaphorical sense of a stance or
> belief-status ("recant,
> desert").
>
> The verb appears 5 times in Acts (5:37, 38, 12:10,
> 15:38, 19:9, 22:29. Only
> the first of these APESTHSEN in 5:37 is active
> (caused to rebel), the rest
> are all intransitive in the aorist; although a
> parser will give you the
> lemma (or dictionary heading) as AFISTHMI, you must
> nevertheless realize
> that all of these aorists in APOSTH/APOSTA are
> intransitive and correspond
> to the present middle AFISTAMAI.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
=====
Eddie Mishoe
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