Σινιάσαι
to sift, to winnow
Translated by Scott Christopher9 Dec 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Christ to Peter: "Satan sought you to sift you like wheat; but I prayed on your behalf, lest your faith fail you."2 Jesus has not prayed on behalf of Peter only, but concerning all those who have Peter's faith. With this "sieve" he riddles [about] nothing other than the whole wide world, which has been made full of delights and sufferings, through which as through holes worldly people fall from the nourishing grain towards Hades, just as from the little holes that separate in a sieve: some flowing through as through the hole of their gluttony, [those] whose God is their belly; others flowing through on account of fondness for pleasure; about whom the prophets say: "they wander about in the spirit of fornication";3 and some flowing through on account of their love of money; and others [flowing through] on account of their natural impulse; and still others [flowing through] on account of their temper; and yet others [flowing through] on account of other passions.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σινιάσαι· σεῖσαι, κοσκινίσαι, θορυβῆσαι, ταράξαι, πειράσαι. ὁ Χριστὸς πρὸς τὸν Πέτρον· ἐζήτησέ σε ὁ Σατανᾶς τοῦ σινιάσαι σε ὡς τὸν σῖτον· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐδεήθην περί σου, ἵνα μὴ ἐκλείπῃ ἡ πίστις σου. οὐ περὶ τοῦ Πέτρου μόνου δεδέηται ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ἀλλὰ περὶ πάντων τῶν τὴν πίστιν Πέτρου ἐχόντων, οὐδὲν ἕτερον αἰνισσομένου τοῦ κοσκίνου ἢ τὸν περίγειον κόσμον, ἡδονῶν καὶ ὀδυνῶν πεπληρωμένον, δι' ὧν ὡς δι' ὀπῶν ἐκπίπτουσιν οἱ γεώδεις ἀπὸ τοῦ τροφίμου σίτου ἐπὶ τὸν ᾅδην, ὡς ἀπὸ τρυπημάτων διαχωριζομένων, τῶν μὲν διαρρεόντων ὡς δι' ὀπῆς τῆς γαστριμαργίας, ὧν ὁ θεὸς ἡ κοιλία· τῶν δὲ διὰ φιληδονίας· περὶ ὧν ὁ προφήτης φησί· πνεύματι πορνείας ἐπλανήθησαν. τῶν δὲ διὰ φιλαργυρίας, τῶν δὲ δι' ὀργῆς, τῶν δὲ δι' ἄλλων παθῶν.
Betacode
*sinia/sai: sei=sai, koskini/sai, qorubh=sai, tara/cai, peira/sai. o( *xristo\s pro\s to\n *pe/tron: e)zh/thse/ se o( *satana=s tou= sinia/sai se w(s to\n si=ton: e)gw\ de\ e)deh/qhn peri/ sou, i(/na mh\ e)klei/ph| h( pi/stis sou. ou) peri\ tou= *pe/trou mo/nou dede/htai o( *)ihsou=s, a)lla\ peri\ pa/ntwn tw=n th\n pi/stin *pe/trou e)xo/ntwn, ou)de\n e(/teron ai)nissome/nou tou= koski/nou h)\ to\n peri/geion ko/smon, h(donw=n kai\ o)dunw=n peplhrwme/non, di' w(=n w(s di' o)pw=n e)kpi/ptousin oi( gew/deis a)po\ tou= trofi/mou si/tou e)pi\ to\n a(/|dhn, w(s a)po\ truphma/twn diaxwrizome/nwn, tw=n me\n diarreo/ntwn w(s di' o)ph=s th=s gastrimargi/as, w(=n o( qeo\s h( koili/a: tw=n de\ dia\ filhdoni/as: peri\ w(=n o( profh/ths fhsi/: pneu/mati pornei/as e)planh/qhsan. tw=n de\ dia\ filarguri/as, tw=n de\ di' o)rgh=s, tw=n de\ di' a)/llwn paqw=n.
Notes (4)
- 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius sigma226 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2Luke 22:31 (web address 1), with exegesis: see n. 4 below. ↩
- 3cf. Hosea 4:12 LXX:
pneu/mati pornei/as e)planh/qhsan kai\ e)cepo/rneusan a)po\ tou= qeou= . ↩ - 4Material not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Palladius of Helenopolis, Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom 132-133 Coleman-Norton. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 26 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation and notes, deleted a link, identified a source — Catharine Roth
- another keyword — David Whitehead
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- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified links — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Scott Christopher