PRWTH in Lk 2:2

Ricardo y Judith Garrett rjgarret at bigfoot.com
Sun Sep 27 09:16:34 EDT 1998


Denny Diehl writes:

Thanks to Carl and Jonathan for such helpful
comments on Lk 2:2.  Last night I was doing some
reading and ran across an F. F. Bruce comment
on this very topic:

	"Luke 2:2, which mentions Quirinius in
	connexion with an earlier census, is best
	translated:  "This enrollment was before
	that made when Quirinius was governor
	of Syria."  (cf. N. Turner,  Grammatical
	Insights Into The Greek New Testament
	[ Edinburgh, 1966 ], pp. 23f).

This is found in Bruce's, New Testament History, p32
note 1.

My comment is that this is also the translation adopted by Nolland in the
Word Biblical Commentary on Luke.

Dick Garrett
Mexico City




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