Re: XARIN ANTI XARITOS
Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Sat, 30 May 1998 08:31:39 -0400
At 08:29 AM 5/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-29 21:31:50 EDT, you write:
>
><< Then I hit verse 16 and it's "KAI XARIN ANTI XARITOS". >>
>
>I wondered about this same thing. I hear "against" when I hear ANTI. Usually
>"in opposition to." But in "Grace against grace" I see a picture of receiving
>so many graces and favors from Christ that they must be placed one against the
>other, side by side, pushed together, to fit them all in.
>
>"What think ye...?" Am I looking to hard and seeing more than is there?
>
>William Boyd
>Royal Palm Beach, Fl.
>
As I mentioned earlier, this preposition can also mean "in place of" or
"instead". The idiom means somtheing like "grace on top of grace" in english.
Best,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net