[B-Greek] Perilanguage, not Metalanguage (was "Fear of fear - 1Pe 3:6")
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun May 2 16:10:48 EDT 2010
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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> For what it's worth, I think we've said that translations are "commentary" -- and I guess that "Perilanguage" means the same thing as "commentary. But I like the ring/"klang" of "Perilanguage" better.
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> Carl W. Conrad
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Yeah, translations ARE useful and handy commentary/exegesis which I
have to rely on lots of time.
In this particular text 1Pe 3:6, let me list what I have seen for this
word PTOHSIS - from 'amazement' to 'terror'. It's a terrifying
experience for a lay
person when there is too much decoding required to get some decent sense out of
the text.
/amazement – KJV;
/dismay - CLV;
/disturbance – DRB;
/intimidation – NET footnote
/(anything that is) frightening – ESV;
/(anything) alarming - HCSB -
/cause of alarm – Rotherham;
/fear - NASB;
/sudden fear - Alford
/hysterical fear - PNT
/terror – Bishops, Geneva, ASV, NKJV, ALT, Wuest;
/cause for terror - NWT;
/fluttering terror - Bengel (or better be 'quivering fear'?)
in addition to glosses listed in BDAG 'terrifying' 'intimidation'
'fear' 'terror'.
NET, NIV, and those with paraphrase style put the whole phrase MH
FOBOUMENAI MDEMIAN PTOHSIN idiomatically something like 'have no fear'
'do not give way to fear' etc. - too easy to swallow ;-) but it may be
what the context calls for. NLT is trying to be too kind to tell us
that it is 'fear of what your husband might do', or is it?
It's sometimes tough to tell what they say is b.s. (beautiful stuff)
or b.s. (baloney stuff) when I'm just wrestling with b.s. (basic
stuff).
Oun Kwon.
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