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Meter Colour Legend:

  • Red underlined text: pronounce as one syllable (dipthong or elision)
  • Orange: numbers divisble by seven / counts are sevened factors
  • Purple: factors of 3
  • Pink: submeters / syllable count for the preceding phrase
  • Green: is keyword / anaphora
  • Light green highlight: unmatched meter sums

Latest master summary of Bible dateline meters, with links to all the related docs and videos: http://www.brainout.net/LukeDatelineMeters.pdf

 

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CNTTS apparatus in Bibleworks 9: v.2's 1st hemon is in many witnesses, but is excluded from UBS text, and from here.  Cadence is thrown off, to include it.  The other variants aren't worth mention or inclusion.

 

 

Verse

Syllable

Cumulative

1

Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ

10

10

 

κατ᾽ ἐπιταγὴν θεοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν

12

22

 

καὶ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τῆς ἐλπίδος ἡμῶν

11

33

2

Τιμοθέῳ γνησίῳ τέκνῳ ἐν πίστει,

12

45

 

χάρις ἔλεος εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν

14

59

 

καὶ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν.

10

69

3

Καθὼς παρεκάλεσά σε προσμεῖναι

11

80

 

ἐν Ἐφέσῳ πορευόμενος εἰς Μακεδονίαν,

15

95

 

ἵνα παραγγείλῃς τισὶν μὴ ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖν

16

111

4

μηδὲ προσέχειν μύθοις καὶ γενεαλογίαις ἀπεράντοις,

18

129

 

αἵτινες ἐκζητήσεις παρέχουσιν

11

140

 

μᾶλλον ἢ οἰκονομίαν θεοῦ τὴν ἐν πίστει.

14

154

 

 

Meter Import

 

Paul writes:

o         When the Lord is (not shoulda-been) Age 69 (baldly paired with 33 end verse 1).  He's used that convention, from Galatians forward.  That places text at 4172 = 66/65 ad.  'Last birthday' is Bible convention, so not rounded to nearest age.

o         140/2 aft = 4172-70=4102: so Paul writes at or after His 69th birthday, then dates here from Annunciation, to confirm 69 as real (not shoulda-been) age.  First '10' then neatly ties back to Luke's Gospel which used the Annunciation as its dateline; Ephesians was written with Luke, or a few months later.

o         140/2 fore = 4172+70=4242, still plays on Zecharias' endpoint and straddles fiscals, again implies Paul writes at Lord's age 69, so in early Adamic 4172, but after December 25.  Or, Paul later switches to shoulda-been after 69, to create equiv. to our ad, then tags the Ephesians (ad) 140 = end Jerusalem under Hadrian.

o         154/2 aft = 4172-77= 4095 = 11 bc, I don't know why;  closest event I can think of, would be when Augustus' new head tax first applied to the provinces, but why pick that?  154 = the number of 7s Isaiah 53 used as his meter base (including the two ellipses of 252 and 364 which Isaiah 53, Daniel 9, in part Magnificat, and Paul himself in Ephesians 1:3-14, used).

o         154/2 fore = 4172+77= 4249, I don't know why.  Zecharias' endpoint was 4240.

Sisyphus