>Gospel of Peter 10 (line 10 in Swete; v. 46 in Mara) has:
>
>APOKRIQEIS hO PEILATOS EFH EGW KAQAREUW TOU hAIMATOS TOU hUIOU TOU
QEOU, hUMIN
>DE TOUTO EDOCEN.
>
>Does anyone have any good ideas about how to translate the last
clause? M.R.
>Swete renders "but this was your pleasure" in his translation. In his
notes he
>has "the sentence was yours, not mine": compare Matt. 26.66: TI hUMIN
DOKEI."
>M. R. James has "but thus it seemed good unto you". BAGD do list "it
seems
>best to me, I decide" as possible for DOKEW but only in the category
"with
>infinitive following" (e.g. Luke 1.3).
>
>Grateful for any input,
>
>Mark
Mark, I take it that Montague Rhodes James read it in the light of the
use of the verb DOKEW in legal contexts, as in Acts 15:25, to mean that
a decision was taken. In the assemblies of Greek cities it was the verb
used to indicate the passing of legislation: EDOXEN THi BOULHi KAI TWi
DEMWI. The GP suggests that the Jews must take responsibility for the
decision to crucify Jesus. This coheres with the developing
anti-Judaism of the second century church, as in Melito's
Paschal Homily.
Yoou might want to look at H.l B. Swete's edition of the GP and the
ApP, pukblished soon after the discovery of the papyrus.
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