Notes on Luke 12 : 16 - 21

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LUKE 12 Verses 16 - 21 

So whats interesting and good teaching examples in the Greek text
thats not obvious in the translation?

Verse 16

Note how the adjectives follow AFTER the noun
of/ for genitive a man certain rich bore the land
Harvest is euphoreesen  a positive burden - eu + phoros

Verse 17

dialegomai Imperfect and 2 lovely examples of FUTURE poieesoo and sunaksoo
from poieoo and sunagoo

Verse 18

katheloo is FUTURE from kathairew ? Why ?
The stem is haireoo. R changes to L. kata plus "H" to kath

apotheekee a storehouse barn or granary as a place you put things away in apo+theke from titheemi

Verse 19

EROO another Future  Note syntax of eis etee polla
anapauou is a Present Imperative but Phage is Aorist then with euphrainoo an Present Imperative
Phage is one of those verbs that use a different Verb for the Present - esthioo

Verse 20

aphroon a foolish person is mindless

apaitousin from apaaiteoo God wants people to be prepared to give back

heetoimasas Aorist of hetoimazoo prepare get ready

he who stores up treasures is 2 words in ho theesaurizoon

Next week back to the Pagans and we look at Poseidon since Haloea was in December

Coming soon A greek Christmas card to share !

The Lord's Prayer in Luke - some notes

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LUKE 11 1 - 4

A few posts back I shared a comparison of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew with the shorter version in Luke's Gospel.

Here are some further study notes on Luke's version.

and he said to them

Hotan proseukheesthe legete  When(ever) you pray say  Verb is Sunjunctive

Pater hagiastheetoo to onoma sou Father let be made holy the name of you

elthetoo hee basileia sou let come the realm of you

Note the 2 Aorist Imperatives

ton arton heemoon ton epiousion didou heemin to kath heemeran

the bread for us the for tomorrow give to/ for  us kata heemeran day by day daily

Do not fret about epiousion being a rare word just break it up into parts look up the parts in a lexicon and look at how they work in the rest of the sentence

let us have a constant supply of essential basic needs does sound better in greek !

kai aphes heemin tas hamartias heemoon  and release us the errors of us

another Aorist Imperative Aphes

kai gar autoi aphiomen panti opheilonti heemin

and for ourselves in regard to selves we release for all debts obligations owed to us

kai mee eisenegkees heema eis peirasmon

and not in carry / lead us into testing / negative experiences

So once again do not worry about minor variations or differences between the passages.

The essential message of both is so similar that the differences do not change the meaning.

preparing students

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Yes people another one of those verse in which knowing Greek deepens insight

Luke 6:40

ouk estin matheetees huper ton didaskalov
kateertismenos de pas estai hoos ho didaskalos autou

not is student over the teacher
then we have a perfect passive participle usually translated as taught trained or perfected
when or after being trained all will be like the teacher of him

note also Hoos some versions translate this as equal but its as like how that

The verb is katartizoo note the art stem

it also means prepare make an exact fit in fact the dictionary says the meaning teach or train is secondary

... make an exact fit ... all not the gospels have this verb and it is odd Luke thinks it should be katartizoo rather than didaskoo or paideuoo ?

I was pondering this and remembered the practice Joseph was a carpenter.

I suspect there is both a pun and a critique here possibly of ancient teaching methods.

Students have to be prepared to become teachers

Students will be teachers if prepared for their role not merely instructed or trained but prepared?

Also here we encouragement that we can become teachers
We do not have to be better or worse or compete than them but be ready to teach others ourselves if we are prepared to do so?

Next time its mid week so back to a secular theme!
That party god!

Cursing and Blessing

CURSING AND BLESSING
FOUR VERBS in LUKE 6:27-28

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But to you I say to those hearing

LOVE THE ENEMIES OF YOU
DO GOOD TO THOSE HATING YOU
BLESS THE ONES WHO CURSE YOU
PRAY FOR THOSE AROUND
MAKING CURSES (about  towards) YOU

Agapapate  LOVE Your enemies agapoo !

Kaloos Poieite  do good act "finely / beautifully to the hating

Eulogeite BLESS speak well eologeoo those who Kataroomenous kataraomai  curse

Proseukhesthe pray for proseukhomai people around you making curses epeereazooo

NOTE THE IMPERATIVE FORMS

Kataraomai Kata+ ara+omai
to pray "down" to curse to ask or invoke  the divine to perform negative actions that harm others 

Eukhomai is strengthened by pros and peri
pray or wish for vow to

Epeereazontoon Epeereazoo related to epeereia

epi plus the er stem
to put words upon in a negative way threaten or abuse insult be spiteful despise verbally

This doesnt mean we can not speak out against evil use satire or have to allow evil "free speech" or spread propaganda

We are commanded to strive to counter balance or overwhelm evil with good.

Do good not just be nice Not to curse but to bless Love instead of hate

Prayer and Action

GEGRAPTAI - It is written

Luke and Matthew tend to use the word gegraptai to introduce Old Testament quotes though they are certainly not the only NT writers to do so.

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Gegraptai is also one of those verb forms that are stronger in Greek.

This verb is the perfect passive form of GRAPHOO.

Why not just use the Aorist? Perhaps Luke is trying to stress the link between past and present? 

The quote is a written thing continuously in use. Remember the Aorist is a Complete Action but Perfect forms are not just used for past actions in Greek but also present actions for states.

IT IS WRITTEN appears in Luke 3.4  before a quote from the Prophet Isaiah then in 4.4 and 4.8 a quote from Dt 8.3,  and then in 4.10, a quote from the Psalms, and in 4.11 another Psalms quote and again in 4.12 a quote from Dt 6.16, then again in 4.11

While the famous quote from Jesus about fulfilling the laws and prophets appears in Matthew 5.17 Luke's opening chapters particularly cite prior prophecies as evidence of Jesus' special status and role and the use of the perfect passive and its repetition strengthens this link to the Old Testament.

Another reason I want you to be more aware of the Greek ... it sounds so much better in Greek than English. Compare GEGRAPTAI being used to rebuke the Devil  to the English it is written !

However remember also what Jesus said about AGAPE  being the core of the commandments. 

He didn't punish the Devil smiting him with divine fire he simply used a quote, words of power to deny temptation.

Now I must go as the local cockatoos are outside trying to tempt me to pay more attention to them than blogging. They're sitting on the railing where they know I can see and hear them. Yes I will refill your water bowl! Practical actions of agape !