@Bagpipes, You've added more references to other biblical texts, but you still haven't explained how any of them (Revelation, Romans, Genesis) are related to the passage in Acts 3, except by theological assumptions. It's necessary for you to 'show your work' if your answer is going to be helpful. Connect the dots for us. — Mark Edward20 mins ago
@JonEricson This may very well qualify among the funniest edit messages of the year "I didn't quite understand myself. So I rephrased and cleaned up the wording. I think I interpret myself correctly." hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/posts/2816/revisions
I have a link-but I would like to include the answer and not just the link
The Greek word for “Restoration” is ajpokatastavsew", which is a noun form and is related to the verb form ajpokaqistavnei"( ajpokaqistavnei"), which is “restore” in Acts 1:6. Both essentially refer to the anticipation of the restoration of the Kingdom.11 The word “restore” (ajpokaqistavnei") means “to restore to the original condition” and was a technical term for the eschatological 12Cleon L. Rogers Jr, & C. L. Rogers III, The New Linguistic & Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament , 229; F. F.
@user2479 that has to do with the font used wherever you are copying from. They likely used a Greek font (like Teknia is notorious for) rather than Unicode
@user2479 boy, putting a space in there so it is actually a link I can click on would be helpful
I can't click on any of your links
Because you didn't put a space between the last word and the beginning of the link
I fixed your links @user2479 but please at least enter them into chat with a space on each site of the URL and include the http:// bit so the system makes them links. Thanks.
@user2479 The Greek word for “Restoration” is ἀποκαταστάσεως, which is a noun form and is related to the verb form apokathistáneis (ἀποκαθιστάνεις), which is “restore” in Acts 1:6. Both essentially refer to the anticipation of the restoration of the Kingdom. The word “restore” (ἀποκαθιστάνεις) means “to restore to the original condition” and was a technical term for the eschatological restoration of the right order through God to Israel.
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The prophecy in Isaiah 9 seems primarily concerned with the survival of the throne of David in the kingdom of Judah (verse 9.7,21) under the threat of Syria and Israel (9.9,11-12,21). This fits the historic context of the eighth century BC, as well as the context of the immedia...
This, while not as sloppy as the ones from a few minutes ago, is still a bit of a missfit to the exact question. I'm out of time to comment at the moment though if somebody wants to try to explain.
Welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange! We're a little different from other sites. This question is asking about the meaning of a Greek word and specifically asks for "reliable, peer reviewed research" that contradicts the meaning given in the question. This answer does not address this at all nor offer any reliable research, but rather reads like a sermon (we are not a Christian site, we expect you to answer the question and 'show your work'). — Daи10 secs ago
A question like this is tantamount to asking how to install Visual Studio with C# on a Mac on a programming website. It shows no research effort and the OP clearly can't read a lick of Greek
I understand we want to help folks, but c'mon
this sort of question makes experts cringe and run
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doing the same thing with the Hebrew without writing custom disambiguation natural language processing code to determine the difference between being in awe vs. being afraid, much more difficult:
but I would have to use an API to do this right, because the same word in the original language can be used for awe and fear, and only context differentiates it
which I suspect no one else has ever done
unless by hand
and while that is the type of programming challenge I might be up for (NLP disambiguation in a foreign language), it's time consuming
and there is less work by others to piggyback off of
you would only need to go through about 430 results, but I'm lazy
@Daи Isn't this a case of using a translation in another language that doesn't have the same ambiguity would be the way to piggy back (as long as a rough figure and not an exact number) was needed?
@Caleb no because I'm a purist so the comparison should be made solely in the original languages
for instance, perhaps there are some words that could carry the connotation of fear that are never translated this way into English
perhaps like "Don't panic"
this is a stretch
but needs to be looked at to do this right
that's why I never do these sorts of things (how many instances?)
I prefer, "Is this an instance of..."
the sky is the limit for the former problem
and to even make any such statement (there are 438 commands not to fear/be afraid in the Protestant canon, 445 if you include the Apocrypha)
(which is the simple answer, BTW)
requires a lot of qualifiers
for instance, sometimes only archaic English translations have the word 'fear' while modern translations use the word 'awe' to better capture authorial intent in context
so removing these examples, there might be only 350 actual commands not to fear
but looking at the original language would likely increase the number in this case, but applying proper disambiguation would make it less then the English Bible count
so I just avoid these problems, too much work to do them correctly. I cringe when pastors make stupid assertions, "God said this 500 times, so...."
arg, did he?
what language/translation(s) did you use? Did you factor in manuscript discrepancies?
How did you disambiguate that verb from when it is used (insert different context and meaning here)
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etc.
but you're also talking to a guy who does NLP/linguistics-related programming tasks on a fairly routine basis
so I think through these problems differently
and every expert I've talked to about this says we have thousands of years to go before we are able to get computers to deal even semi-effectively with problems posed by ontological semantics
@Daи Usually HCSB or ESV for my personal use, with some NASV for good measure. Most of my interaction with others is done with one of the available Turkish translations (which leave MUCH to be desired). I don't regularly check for manuscript issues but I do spot them it translations and when I'm studying something and see a variation in translations I'll go figure out where it came from before moving on.
@Daи More than that if you ask me. There is a reason we call them NATURAL languages.
Ug, why is that link throwing translation markers on every verse? Looks like I need to go do some bug squashing.
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