Kata Markon

[Mike Parsons <Mike_Parsons AT baylor.edu>]

         Reply to:   RE: [gmark] Re: Temptations

I will take up your points in reverse order
you wrote: 2)  . . . what you took to be instances of PEIRAZW were really 
instances of PEIRAW, a >verb whose semantic range I have only cursorily 
investigated.

I was (and am) fully aware that the instances I cited were cases of PEIRAW 
and not PEIRAZW.  I am also aware that Seeseman does include PEIRAW in his 
TDNT discussion and suggests it has among other things the meaning of "put to 
the test". My question is whether or not in your study (which i have not read 
either in article or book form) you included instances of PEIRAW.  If you 
did, why do you not take into account these passages from Xenophon (and 
perhaps other novels where testing in the sense of testing character is a 
main theme)?  If you did not, why not?

 (1) to ask >whether, as George Young had seem to imply,  there are really 
any instances in the >Novels of the use of (EK)PEIAZW [sic] and PEIRASMOS

actually in your earlier post you wrote > > > noun PEIRASMOS and its verbal 
cognates PEIRAZW, EKPEIRAZW, etc., (my emphasis)
In your new quote you (conveniently?) left out the "etc."  I was asking 
whether or not PEIRAW/PEIRAOMIA should be included as one of the "etc."  
Mikeal C. Parsons
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