This is part two of a series examining the use of λογιζομαι in Greek literature contemporary with the New Testament (click here for part 1). In this post, we will provide the instances of λογιζομαι from the pseudepigrapha. The Greek text I have used for this study is The Greek Pseudepigrapha by Craig Evans (2008) and the English translation is by Craig Evans, The Pseudepigrapha (2008), both resources are available on Bibleworks 10. To avoid duplication, I will not be reproducing 3 Maccabees 4:4; 5:16; 4 Maccabees 3:15; 8:16, 19, as they were in part 1 on the LXX Apocrypha.
Woe to you, you who alter the words of truth and pervert the eternal covenant, and reckon (λογιζομαι) yourselves without sin; they will be swallowed up in the earth. (1 Enoch 99:2)
And the prophet said: "Lord, if you have considered (λογιζομαι) these things, why did you make man? (Apocalypse of Ezra 3:9)
But if brings gifts to God or offers first-fruits of all (his) goods, and if he builds churches or does something else without love, it will be reckoned (λογιζομαι) with God as nothing; for this is not acceptable. (Apocalypse of Sedrach 1:7)
The Lord says to him: "Sedrach, my beloved, I promise to have sympathy and bring down the forty days to twenty: and whosoever will remember your name will not see the place of punishment but will be with the just in a place of refreshment and rest. And if anyone will record this wonderful word his sins will not be reckoned (λογιζομαι) against him forever and ever." (Apocalypse of Sedrach 16:3)
But he found also the shoot of the vine; and he took it, and was reasoning (λογιζομαι) in himself, 'What then is it' And I came and spoke to him the things concerning it. (3 Baruch 4:12)
In consideration you also ought to have no malice, my children, and love one another, and do not consider (λογιζομαι) evil against his brother. (Testament of Zebulun 8:5)
And after these things you will remember the Lord, and you will repent and He will return to you, for He is merciful and compassionate, and He does not account (λογιζομαι) evil to the sons of men, because they are flesh, and the deceitful spirits deceive them in all their deeds. (Testament of Zebulun 9:7)
For, having its thoughts (λογιζομαι) set upon righteousness, and casting away wickedness, it immediately overthrows the evil, and uproots the sin. (Testament of Asher 1:7)
For Joseph also besought our father that he would pray for his brothers, that the Lord would not count (λογιζομαι) to them as sin whatever evil had done to him. (Testament of Benjamin 3:6 [while an apologist for forensic justification may latch onto this use of λογιζομαι, Joseph is pleading for his disobedient children to be forgiven of their sin before they will be considered “forgiven”; in addition there is no mention of alien imputed righteousness in this text])
"And as soon as my wife drew near me, she was crying out with weeping she says to me: 'Job, Job, how long will you sit upon the dung heap outside of the city, thinking (λογιζομαι) yet a little time, and awaiting the hope of your salvation? (The Testament of Job 24:1)
And I said to him: "At the hour in which the demon will come to you, throw this ring at the chest of the demon saying to him: 'Come! King Solomon calls you,' and then come running to me, before he says (λογιζομαι) anything that may frighten you." (The Testament of Solomon 1:9 [recension A])
And I supposed (λογιζομαι) these things (were intended) in ridicule, (so) I commanded a soldier to strike her. But she crying out loud said: "I say to you, O king, I (belong) to you by the binding of the wisdom of God!" (The Testament of Solomon 4:1 [A])
For their whole disposition leads them to find solace in these things. Among our people such things are reckoned of no account, but throughout their whole life their main consideration (λογιζομαι) is the sovereignty of God. (Aristeas 1:141)
(The king) signified his agreement and said to another: "What is the essence of kingship? And he said: "To rule oneself well and not to be led astray by wealth or fame to immoderate or unseemly desires, this is the true way of ruling if you reason (λογιζομαι) the matter well out. For all that you really need is yours, and God is free from need and is gentle. Let you thoughts be such as become a man, and desire not many things but only such are necessary for ruling." (Aristeas 1:211)
(The king) said that he had given a good answer, and asked another how he could live amicably with the many different races that formed the population of his kingdom? "By acting the proper part towards each," he said, "and taking righteousness as your guide, as you are now doing with the help of the insight which God bestows upon you." (Aristeas 1:267)
I thought (λογιζομαι) in my heart that I was full of righteousness, because I was well off and had become rich. (Psalms of Solomon 1:3)
He reflected (λογιζομαι) not that he was a man. And reflected (λογιζομαι) not on the latter end. (Psalms of Solomon 2:28)
I will give thanks to you, O God, for you helped me to (my) salvation, and have not counted (λογιζομαι) me with sinners for destruction. (Psalms of Solomon 16:5)
