Isa 53 in 1 Clem

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 8 14:25:42 EST 1999


At 11:07 AM -0500 12/8/99, Bart Ehrman wrote:
>   1 Clement quotes the LXX of Isa. 53, "He was led like a sheep going to
>slaughter; and as a lamb is silent before the one who shears it, so he did
>not open his mouth...  EN THi TAPEINWSEI hH KRISIS AUTOU HRQH" (1 Clem
>16:7).  So too Acts 8:33 (possibly add AUTOU after TAPEINWSEI).
>
>  This is often translated something like, "In his humiliation, justice
>was denied him."  What about, instead, something like "He bore the
>judgment against him in humility"  (for, literally: "in humility was his
>judgment borne).

I really don't think this will work; very occasionally in the early Greek
instances of AIRW does it seem able to carry the meaning "suffer,"
"endure"--like FERW or TOLMAW/TLAW--but it's fundamental usage in later
eras seems to be "lift up"--very much like Latin TOLLO, in the sense of
"remove from the scene" or "take away"--and I really think that's the
meaning one really ought to assume in this passage. It's noteworthy that
the same word appears a second time in the same verse (AIRETAI APO THS GHS
hH ZWH AUTOU)--and apparently in the same sense (Isaiah 53:8): EN THi
TAPEINWSEI hH KRISIS AUTOU HRQH; THN GENAN AUTOU TIS DIHGHSETAI, hOTI
AIRETAI APO THS GHS hH ZWH AUTOU; APO TWN ANOMIWN TOU LAOU MOU HCQH EIS
QANATON.





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