From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 15:24:15 EST
At 2:52 PM -0500 2/7/00, Jim West wrote:
>At 02:31 PM 2/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> In 1 Clement 24:2 we read: IDWMEN AGAPHTOI THN KATA KAIRON GINOMENHN
>>ANASTASIN, "We should consider, beloved, the resurrection that happens
>>KATA KAIRON." What do you think of rendering it "...the resurrection that
>>happens all the time," instead of something like "at the right time" or
>>"at the right season" or the like?
>
>Wouldn't that require CHRONOS or the like? Further- what exactly is a
>resurrection that happens all the time?
As for Jim West's question, it seems we could point directly at Paul's
statement
in Phil 3:9-11, which I would be inclined to understand in terms of a
repeated mystical experience of sharing the death and resurrection of Jesus
on a personal level, and I think there are other passages that suggest a
recurrent experience of participation in Jesus' death and resurrection.
I think I would want to understand the passage in 1 Clement as "the
resurrection that comes seasonally." While I recall the passage (I know not
from what source) back in the old Chase & Phillips beginning textbook:
CRONOS MEN ESTIN EN hWi POLLOI EISIN KAIROI, KAIROS DE EN hWi OUK ESTIN
POLUS CRONOS, I also remember at some point (Cornford?) the notion that
KAIROI are the turning points of cyclical time--the equinoxes and the
solstices, hence the points of new beginning that the changes of seasons
represent--hence, in the present context, "the resurrection that comes when
time is ripe for it"--I think this is still something that can recur, just
as does Springtime.
>> The text goes on to say that day and night reveal the resurrection
>>(since the day appears when the night departs, etc.) as do the crops,
>>which make their regular appearance after sowing. This is just before the
>>famous passage of the Phoenix, which also proves the resurrection (!).
Well, I think I'd say these are precisely the sorts of "fruition"
associated with the rhythms of time and the regular recursion of seasonal
renewal.
Another guess, at any rate.
Carl W. Conrad
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