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'Power' and the Marcosian Reading of the Gospel
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:29 am
by Secret Alias
With reference to squares, a most important part is played by the word δύναμις and the various parts of the verb δύναμαι, δύναμις expresses a square (literally a power); thus in Diophantus it is used throughout as the technical term for the square of the unknown quantity in an algebraical equation, i.e. for x2. In geometrical language it is the dative singular δυνάμει which is mostly used; thus a straight line is said to be potentially equal, δυνάμει ìσον, to a certain rectangle where the meaning is that the square on the straight line is equal to the rectangle
δύναμις Κυρίου
If Jesus is the 'power' of the Lord is he at once the 'square' of his number?
Re: 'Power' and the Marcosian Reading of the Gospel
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:33 am
by Secret Alias
If Jesus was 'the power of God' (1 Corinthians 1:24) and Jesus was 30 does that mean that his Father was 900?
Re: 'Power' and the Marcosian Reading of the Gospel
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:26 am
by Secret Alias
V. Math., power, “κατὰ μεταφορὰν ἡ ἐν γεωμετρίᾳ λέγεται δ.” Id.Metaph.1019b33; usu. second power, square, κατὰ δύναμιν in square, Pl.Ti.54b, cf. Theol.Ar.11, etc.: chiefly in dat., [εὐθεῖα] δυνάμει ἴση a line the square on which is equal to an area, ἡ BA ἐλάσσων ἐστὶν ἢ διπλασίων δυνάμει τῆς AK the square on BA is less than double of the square on AK, Archim.Sph.Cyl.2.9: εὐθεῖαι δ. σύμμετροι commensurable in square, Euc.10Def.2; ἡ δυνάμει δεκάς the series 12 + 22 . . . + 102, Theol.Ar.64.
b. square number, Pl.Ti.32a.
c. square of an unknown quantity (x2), Dioph.Def.2, al.
2. square root of a number which is not a perfect square, surd, opp. μῆκος, Pl. Tht.147d.
3. product of two numbers, ἡ ἀμφοῖν (sc. τριάδος καὶ δυάδος）“ δ. ἑξάς” Ph.1.3, cf. Iamb.in Nic.p.108 P.; δυνάμει in product, Hero Metr.1.15, Theol.Ar.33.
cf. κατά δύναμιν καί ὑπέρ (others, δύναμιν, according to their means, yea, beyond their means, 2 Corinthians 8:3