Fwd: I Need Your Help with “Purse” (Luke 12:33)

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From: billmounce.com <newsletter@billmounce.net>
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:07 AM
Subject: I Need Your Help with "Purse" (Luke 12:33)
To: Rick Livermore

Bible Study Greek

I Need Your Help with "Purse" (Luke 12:33) Bill Mounce I need to find a different word than "moneybags" in Luke 12:33, but I am drawing a blank. Can you help me? I need to find a different word than "moneybags" in Luke 12:33. Jesus says, "Sell your possessions and give alms. Make for yourselves moneybags (βαλλάντια) that do not wear out, a treasure unfailing in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys." BDAG glosses βαλλάντιον as money-bag, purse. I suspect the closest thing we have today to a βαλλάντιον is a fanny pack. See the article on Purse at the BiblicalTraining.org library. βαλλάντιον occurs three other times in the New Testament, all with the same basic meaning. "Purse" sounds too feminine, and the NLT's "purses of heaven," while softening the feminine image, really doesn't make much sense to me. "Money-bag" is too old and reminds me of a "saddle-bag." "Fanny pack" is too colloquial. The KJV "bags" is too non-descript. Is "wallet" too modern a term? Unless I hear otherwise, I would have to go with "money-bag" since you can parse its meaning from the two words. Or should it be "moneybag"?

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