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  • From: kraft AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft)
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
  • Cc: kraft AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft)
  • Subject: SWSQENHS - KRISPOS in Chrysostom
  • Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 00:52:28 -0400 (EDT)


Since most of you probably don't know that the TLG is now available
online, by subscription (I don't know details -- check their web page),
and since we have it available through the library here at UPenn, I'm able
to supply the desired Greek in Beta code (convert as you wish) through
simple cut and paste:

> Subject: Re: Sosthenes was Crispus
> From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:21:03 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 8
>
> At 01:28 AM 5/1/02 -0500, rfellows AT intergate.ca wrote:
> >Back in 1992 Dale Allison showed that ancient writers often referred to
> >the
> >same person by different names in the same text, sometimes in a way that
> >seems strange to the modern ear (1). My own work confirmed this (2).
> >Examples from the NT are Cephas-Peter in Galatians, Titus-Timothy in 2
> >Corinthians, and John-Mark in Acts.
> >
> >I propose that Crispus-Sosthenes is another example.
>
> Thanks again for an intriguing proposal. This is more of a lead
> than a comment. In checking out your idea, I came across a homily
> by John Chrysostom which may have anticipated your idea:
>
> Homily XXXIX on Acts (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 11):

Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl., In Acta apostolorum. {2062.154} Volume 60
page 278

*KAI\ METABA\S E)KEI=QEN, H)=LQEN EI)S OI)KI/AN *)IOU/STOU.
*METABAI/NEI BOULO/MENOS AU)TOU\S PEI=SAI, O(/TI PRO\S TA\ E)/QNH
H)PEI/GETO.

> >Accordingly, mark immediately the ruler of the synagogue converted, and
> >many

> >others, when he had done this.

(20) *KRI/SPOS DE\ O( A)RXISUNA/GWGOS, FHSI\N, E)PI/STEUSE
TW=| *KURI/W| SU\N O(/LW| TW=| OI)/KW| AU)TOU=. *(/ORA
TOU\S PISTOU\S TO/TE META\ TH=S OI)KI/AS TOU=TO POIOU=NTAS
O(LOKLH/ROU.
*TOU/TOU DE\ GENOME/NOU, EU)QE/WS KAI\ E(/TEROI POLLOI\
PISTEU/SANTES E)BAPTI/SQHSAN.

"Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed
in the Lord, with his whole house:
and many of the Corinthians hearing
> >believed, and were baptized."--(v. 8.) "With his whole house:"[3] observe
> >the converts in those times doing this with their entire household.

*TOU=TON *KRI/SPON LE/GEI TO\N
A)RXISUNA/GWGON, PERI\ OU(= FHSI GRA/FWN: *OU)DE/NA A)/LLON
E)BA/PTISA, EI) MH\ *KRI/SPON KAI\ *GA/I+ON. *OI)=MAI DE\ TOU=TON
KAI\ *SWSQE/NHN LE/GESQAI, O(\S TOSOU=TON A)NH\R PISTO\S H)=N,
W(/STE KAI\ TU/PTESQAI KAI\ PAREI=NAI A)EI\ TW=| *PAU/LW|.

This
> >Crispus he means where he writes, "I baptized none save Crispus and
> >Gaius."
> >(1 Cor. 1:14.) This (same) I take to be called Sosthenes--(evidently) a
> >believer, insomuch that he is beaten, and is always present with Paul.*


> The English of this passage is not pellucid and I have no easy access to
> the Greek, so you'll have to do that legwork, but this appears to mean
> that Crispus (or Gaius???) is Sosthenes in Chrysostom's opinion (rather
> than tradition, however).
>
> Stephen Carlson

Please don't flood me with requests!
Bob

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