Greetings gfsomsel, > Personally, however, I tend to disagree.  I think that whatever the view one has regarding the EKENWSEN of v. 7 in the passage cited there seems to be a distinction between the form or appearance and TO ONTWS WN. > I agree. If the author had intended to express 'he always had the very nature of God', one might reasonably expect Greek words which actually mean 'he always had the very nature of God'. We do not find them. If you wanted to express the sense 'very nature of', would you really use MORFH? I doubt it. Jonathan Burke. --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu ent verbs are used. Matthew, as noted above, uses >> PROSKUNEW, which I always understood to be the standard Israelite >>description of one's posture during prayer and might be translated into >>English as "prostrate." > >Tony: > > It's good to hear form you on this forum. But in reading your post, it >seems to me you have read PROSKUNEW for the text's PROSEUCOMAI, the latter >of which simply means "pray." > > Check it out again and see if that's not the case. > David, Thanks for the note. You're right; I had misread what George wrote. The expression for "prostrate" is actually "to fall on one's face" (in Matt, EPESEN EPI PROSWPON AUTOU). But I'm still curious about why the three different verbs, and whether they are merely synonymous, or represent different ideas. Tony Anthony Prete 212 Marne Avenue Haddonfield NJ 08033-1444 609/428-1203 tonyp@waterwheel.net --- b-greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek To post a message to the list, mailto:b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, mailto:subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu To unsubscribe, mailto:unsubscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu?subject=[cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]