Re: Mk 4:10ff.

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 09:10:52 EST


At 06:46 PM 1/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Perhaps the hardest verses in Mark, but how should MUSTHRION be translated
>at 4:11? 'Secret' seems almost an under-translation, and 'mystery' an
>over-translation. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
>Thanks
>Julian Waterfield

I'm gonna catch it for this one- but I would suggest "rites". "To you are
given the "rites" of the Kingdom..." I.e., you are the ones who can
initiate others into the rule of God.

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest@highland.net
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest

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