From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 19:24:49 EDT
At 5:16 PM -0400 7/3/00, Theodore H Mann wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I have a translation that renders hUPOSTASIS, in Hebrews 11:1, as
>"substantiation." Is this a reasonable choice?
I don't think it's a bad choice. As in one of Robert Frost's last poems:
But God's own descent
Into flesh was meant
as a demonstration
that the supreme merit
lay in risking spirit
in substantiation.
That's from memory and I'm not altogether sure of the phrasing of the first
line, but I think the sense of "substantiation" here is akin to what you're
suggesting, and I frankly like "substantiation" for hUPOSTASIS better than
KJV's "substance."
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