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Headword:
*sofo/s
Adler number: sigma,819
Translated headword: skilled, wise
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] a wild-beast-charmer.
David [says]: "she is drugged, drugged by a skilled man."[1] As the [phrase] "they are skilled in evildoing".[2] Also, "Where [is] a wise man? Where [is] a scribe?"[3] For he is not naming those who are truly wise, but those whom some think to be.
*sofo/s: o( qhrepw|do/s. *dabi/d: farmakou=tai farmakeuome/nh para\ sofou=. w(s to/, sofoi/ ei)si tou= kakopoih=sai. kai/, pou= sofo/s; pou= grammateu/s; ou) ga\r tou\s w(s a)lhqw=s sofou\s o)noma/zei, a)lla\ tou/s tisin ei)=nai dokou=ntas.
Notes:
The entry follows -- with some freedom -- Theodoret (PG 80.1297ab) on Psalm 57:6 LXX. See further, next note.
[1] Thus the Suda's version of the verse, but it is garbled: farmakou=tai farmakeuome/nh should be the duller farma/kou te farmakeuome/nou.
[2] Jeremiah 4:22 LXX.
[3] 1 Corinthians 1:20.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; religion; zoology
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 18 June 2003@08:10:02.
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