Angewiesenheit

assignation (ETEM)
submission to (BTJS)

NT: Submission to (Angewiesenheit auf = dependence/reliance on (the world)), 87, 137, 139, 161, 297, 348, 383, 412. See also Abandon; Surrender; Throwness (BTJS)


1. ‘angewiesen’; ‘Angewiesenheit’. The verb ‘anweisen’, like ‘verweisen’, can often be translated as ‘assign’, particularly in the sense in which one assigns or allots a place to something, or in the sense in which one gives an ‘assignment’ to someone by instructing him how to proceed. The past participle ‘angewiesen’ can thus mean ‘assigned’ in either of these senses; but it often takes on the connotation of ‘being dependent on’ something or even ‘at the mercy’ of something. In this passage we have tried to compromise by using the verb ‘submit’. Other passages call for other idioms, and no single standard translation seems feasible. (BTMR)