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Frans: In most dictionaries you'll find this participial form in an
entry for 'eleew', where all the e's are epsilons. But in this
particular form the first and third e's are etas. F. W. Danker's
revision of the Arndt/Gingrich _A Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature_ (Univ. of Chicago
Press, 2000) cites instances at 1 Pt 2:10 (cp. Hos. 1:6), 1 Cor 7:25
(and cp. 2 Cor 4:1). Best again, John
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From: Frans van Liere <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:11 pm
Subject: Re: [M-R] Helimenus ?
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> John: That makes sense, of course! I guess that's with an epsilon.
> The "h" set
> me on a wrong foot, and let me look at the eta. Does anyone have
> any other
> occurences of this word, or precedents??
>
>
>
> Frans van Liere
> Department of History, Calvin College
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> >>> John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> 08/31/06 7:00 PM >>>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> Dear Frans,
>
> It looks to me like 'eleemenos' ('one who has received mercy').
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
>
>
> On Thursday, August 31, 2006, at 5:26 pm, Frans van Liere wrote:
>
> > After George's wise words convinced me to stay on the list, I'd
> > like to pick
> > your learned brains about something I encountered in the
> > commentaries of Andrew
> > of Saint Victor on the XII Prophets, which I am currently co-
> editing.>
> > Frequently, Andrew of Saint Victor (d. 1175) refers to the
> Jewish
> > Messiah as
> > "their Helimenus" (helimenus suus). (As in: the Jews think this
> > Bible verse
> > predicts the coming of their helimenus, but we think it refers
> to
> > Christ.)First I thought this was a reference to Elijah, but
> ruled
> > that out after some
> > research. I have not found the word "helimenus" in any
> respectable
> > dictionary.My question: does anyone know of any other uses of
> this
> > word "helimenus"? Does
> > anyone have any clue as to its etymology? (It sounds vaguely
> Greek
> > to me, no
> > pun intended, but I did not find it in a Greek dictionary
> either).
> > Does anyone
> > have any other light to shed on this enigmatic word?
> >
> > Thank you very much for any suggestions!
>
>
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