Lk 17:21, ENTOS hUMWN

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Jul 24 08:24:34 EDT 2001


At 03:34 24/07/01, Andrej Ricnik wrote:

>Luther translated:"inside you", and from
>my classical greek I'd agree with him.

I'd exercise caution about any seamless connection with classical greek: 
have you looked at BAGD?
There you will find, undeer ENTOS, a note that:
 >>in our lit. only as improper prep. w. gen. inside, within, within the 
limits of (Lucian, Dial. Mort. 14, 5; Jos., Bell. 3, <<<
Furthermore, where BAGD speculates that ENTOS hUMWN " may mean within you, 
in your hearts (cf. Ps 38:4; 102:1; 108:22, " it immediately points out 
that all three citations are actually ENTOS MOU;


>More recent German translations come up
>with "among you", and I was wondering how
>you guys would put it.

Not just German translations -- look at the long article in the Anchor 
Bible Dictionary, in which ENTOS hUMWN is always regarded as " in the midst 
of you ", as does the RSV.
This becomes " among you " in the NRSV, more than likely because "in the 
midst of " is by now verging on the archaic.

As you have just introduced yourself to the list ( and you are welcome ) 
could I point out that this particular issue often wanders way outside the 
strict realms of grammar into fields which are not the concern of the 
B-GREEK list -- as you have doubtless read in the standard doc. sent to new 
members?




Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[Bray, Ireland]

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