From: Steven Craig Miller (scmiller@www.plantnet.com)
Date: Wed Oct 13 1999 - 20:22:56 EDT
To: Nigel Hanscamp,
<< ... in the context Jesus had effectively thrown the grapes to them and
then said "Catch". They seemed to have no choice in the matter. Is this the
force of the imperative? >>
John writes: KAI TOUTO EIPWN ENEFUSHSEN KAI LEGEI AUTOIS: LABETE PNEUMA
hAGION -- "and saying this he blows [on them] and says to them: Receive the
holy breath" (John 20:22). It is almost analogous to a child, perhaps
sucking on an interesting flavor of candy, blowing his or her breath at
one's noise and saying: "Smell my breath!" One smells it, not because one
was instructed to do so, but because the breath was blown towards one's
noise. Similarly, if one wants to argue that the Johannine Jesus' disciples
had little choice in the matter, the justification of such an argument
should probably be based on ENEFUSHSEN and not LABETE.
-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller@www.plantnet.com
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