At 4:40 AM -0600 12/19/97, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>In the midst of Stephen's account of the apostasy of Israel he uses a
turn of
>phrase that has a very familiar ring.
>
>Acts 7:42
>
>ESTREYEN DE hO QEOS KAI PAREDWKEN AUTOUS LATREUEIN ...
>
>When I read this I could hear the voice of Paul in Romans 1:24:
>
>DIO PAREDWKEN AUTOUS hO QHEOS EN TAIS EPIQUMIAS ...
>
>Here we have a striking phrase used in the same sense while expounding
the
>same subject. Now this is an intriguing problem is it not? Paul was an
auditor
>at Steven's martyrdom was he not? But no one has ever suggested (have
they?)
>that Paul was in anyway dependent on Stephen for some of his ideas.
Luke is a
>factor here but I am not sure what sort of a factor. I remember
reading here
>and there things about Luke and Paul being together during Paul's
journeys.
>
>Does anyone want to try and explain this phenomena? Is this Paul
borrowing
>from Stephen or did Luke cast Stephen's speech into a Pauline form due
to his
>familiarity with Paul's manner of speech? What is going on here?
These phenomenA or this phenomenON? I'm not really convinced there is
either parallelism or borrowing at all here. In the first place, I
think that Paul in the three instances of PAREDWKEN in Rom 1 (24, 26,
28) are all used with EIS + accusative (24: EIS AKAQARSIAN, 26: EIS
PAQH ATIMIAS, 28: EIS ADOKIMON NOUN), whereas Stephen's expression in
Acts 7:42 is PAREDWKEN with an infinitive. One might just as well make
a comparison with Mark's distinctive use of PARADIDONAI as a verb
applying to the delivery of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the disciples
of Jesus still later up to their destined imprisonment and execution. I
think that the basic sense of PARADIDWMI is "give over"--but it has
quite a range of different senses; I note the following in Louw/Nida
(marvelous facility in Accordance to put these all together so
easily):
Geneva13.142
didwmiGenevac ;
paradidwmiGenevad
: to grant someone the opportunity or occasion to do something - 'to
grant, to allow.'
21.7 paraboleu/omai;
paradi/dwmi th\n yuch/n
Geneva(an idiom, literally 'to hand
over life'): to expose oneself willingly to a danger or risk - 'to
risk, to risk one's life.'
23.110 paradi/dwmi to\
pneumaGeneva: (an idiom, literally
'to give over the spirit') to die, with the possible implication of a
willing or voluntary act - 'to die.'
37.12 paradi/dwmi eis
ceirasGeneva: (an idiom, literally
'to give into the hands') to hand someone over into the control of
others - 'to deliver to the control of, to hand over to.'
37.111
paradi/dwmiGenevab
;
pari/sthmiGenevae
: to deliver a person into the control of someone else, involving
either the handing over of a presumably guilty person for punishment by
authorities or the handing over of an individual to an enemy who will
presumably take undue advantage of the victim - 'to hand over, to turn
over to, to betray.'
57.77
paradi/dwmiGenevaa
: to hand over to or to convey something to someone, particularly a
right or an authority - 'to give over, to hand over.
Carl W. Conrad
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