πλάνη active or passive sense.

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Re: πλάνη active or passive sense.

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Andrew Chapman wrote:
cwconrad wrote:Certainly the verb is a denominative based upon the noun ἡ πλάνη.
I had read BDAG as saying that πλάνη was derived from πλανάω. Have they got it the wrong way around?
My understanding of BDAG's parenthetical citation of πλανᾶσυαι was indicating etymological cognate, not derivation. I think it is the case that the contract verbs in -οῦν and -ᾶν are denominatives from -ο- stem and -α- stem nominals.
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

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Re: πλάνη active or passive sense.

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cwconrad wrote:My understanding of BDAG's parenthetical citation .. was indicating etymological cognate, not derivation.
Thanks very much, Carl, I have to admit that I was only really guessing that the citation indicated derivation. I will check what BDAG's front matter says next time I am in the library.

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Re: πλάνη active or passive sense.

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Moulton and Milligan:
In the NT πλανή is generally, if not always, used in the pass. sense of "error": cf Armitage Robinson ad Eph 4:14
Armitage Robinson on Ephesians 4 v 14:
In all the passages where it occurs in the New Testament, πλάνη will bear the passive meaning, 'error', though the active meaning 'deceit', would sometimes be equally appropriate.
So I think there is support for the active/passive terminology. Perhaps one needs both this and Stephen's process/result. I guess 'error' could be seen as the result of having been led astray (passive). Deceit may be process and active, it seems to me.

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