School, Schoolmaster
School, Schoolmaster
SCHOOL, SCHOOLMASTER.School occurs in EV [Note: English Version.] only in Act 19:9 for the lecture-room of an Ephesian rhetorician (cf. Education, p. 204a); schoolmaster only in Gal 3:24-25 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , for which RV [Note: Revised Version.] has tutor. The original is paidaggos, lit. child-conductor, pedagoguean old and trusty slave, who accompanied the Greek child to and from school and was bound never to lose sight of him, to carry his lyre and tablets, and to keep him out of mischief (Gardner and Jevons, Manual of Gr. Antiq. 303). He had nothing to do with the teaching, as is suggested by both the English renderings. The same word is rendered instructors in 1Co 4:15 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] (RV [Note: Revised Version.] , as before, tutors). In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] the latter word is found only in Gal 4:2 as the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of an entirely different word, correctly rendered guardians by RV [Note: Revised Version.] . For the duties of guardians in Gr. law see op. cit. 552 f.
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