[B-Greek] Bloody Sweat

Daniel Lundsgaard Skovenborg waldeinburg at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 24 10:50:40 EDT 2011


> Ὡσεί hWSEI indicates a comparison.  It does not indicate identity.
Correct, but so does the english ‘like’. I think it's actually hard to see how 
the translations could have created the blood-sweating traditition. Neither 
Vulgata nor KJV gives any obvious reason to this.
I usually hear the blood-sweating interpreted as a sign of how much Jesus were 
sweating, not as a transformation: If he were sweating blood, boy, he was 
sweating! I even heard some say that it is anatomically (sorry, that's not the 
right word, but you get the point) possible.
The picture the text tries to convey is probably just that he sweated so much 
that it dripped. If you are sweating a bit your skin gets damp; but this is 
heavy sweating: The sweat comes out of the skin comparable to blood flowing out 
of a wound.

- Daniel Lundsgaard Skovenborg





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From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
To: Alexander Ring <akring at mac.com>; greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Ὡσεί hWSEI indicates a comparison.  It does not indicate identity.

 george
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From: Alexander Ring <akring at mac.com>
To: greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 2:49:18 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Bloody Sweat

Lk 22:44
καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἱδρὼς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ θρόμβοι αἵματος 

KAI EGENETO O hIDRWS AUTOU hWSEI QROMBOI AIMATOS

Every year this bothers me, but I don't think I've ever posted a question about 
it here.

I always understood this verse to say, "And his sweat became like large drops of 

blood"; where hWSEI means something like "could be compared to", not "turned 
into". Yet every Lent we hear about the "bloody sweat".

So what is the natural meaning of hWSEI here? 

Rev. Alexander Ring
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