[B-Greek] Luke 9:1-2 and healing (Was Carl Conrad's account of Voice and Deponency )
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat May 1 23:47:10 EDT 2010
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org> wrote:
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> QERAPEUW means "to serve" or in the context of people with diseases "to treat"
> or "take care of". You can treat/take care of both the person and the disease,
> and it is the normal expectation that the patient gets well after treatment. The
> context will usually clarify the expectations and results.
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> IAOMAI means "to restore to health", including spiritual health. In the NT, this
> verb is only used with a person as object. You do not restore a sickness to
> health, you restore people. It has a lot of overlap with SWiZW.
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> I was curious (?) that many English versions, following the example of the KJV,
> say in Luke 9:1 "cure diseases". In my admittedly low-level knowledge of the
> English language, I am more used to people being cured than diseases. I thought
> a person was cured from a disease, not that the disease was cured.
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> There may be a historical reason for one verb being an MP, and a semantic shift
> may be involved, but I don't want to speculate on it, since I don't know.
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> Iver Larsen
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You can 'cure' the condition/disease in a sense of 'eradicate'. The
often-heard expression "a surgery was successful, but the patient
died" is a grim predicament we face not infrequently in our healing
profession. 'Successful', presumably to cure it.
Oun Kwon.
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