[B-Greek] John's Theme of "Sending"

Aaron Merrick amerrick at mac.com
Wed Jun 18 22:25:44 EDT 2008


Stewart Custer on the Bob Jones University faculty has a treatment in  
his book on synonyms (like Bishop Trench's book, but with additional  
sets) that contrasts and compares the two verbs.

Aaron Merrick


On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I'm reading through John's gospel and have been impressed with how  
> often this
> gospel refers to the theme of "sending" (both APOSTELLW and PEMPW,  
> the 2 words
> appear to be used interchangeably in John). There appear to be 4  
> significant
> categories:
> 1. God sends John the Baptist
> 2. God sends Jesus
> 3. Jesus sends His disciples
> 4. Jesus sends the Holy Spirit
> Are you aware of any articles or other references that treat this  
> topic? One
> specific area especially of interest to me is whether some such  
> title as, "The
> Sent One" (from Heb SHALACH), might have been understood in 2nd  
> temple times as
> a designation of the Messiah. Some verses even appear to make belief  
> that Jesus
> is the Sent One as the content of saving faith (see,11:42;  
> 17:3,8,21,23,25).
>
> Thank you,
>
> En Xristwi,
>
> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
>
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