Matthew 6:12

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 21 06:37:13 EDT 1999


At 12:28 AM -0500 9/21/99, Joe A. Friberg wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kevin Smith <kgs at iafrica.com>
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 3:57 PM
>
>> I am mystified as to why UBS4 does not even list the variant readings for
>> AFHKAMEN, namely, AFIEMEN and AFIOMEN. In his Textual Commentary, Metzger
>> (1994:13) says, "... a majority of the Committee preferred AFHKAMEN,"
>> thereby implying that the editors of UBS4 themselves were not unanimous.
> >
> > I certainly agree that AFHKAMEN is the more likely reading, but I would
>have
>> thought the variants should at least by cited, especially if the editors
>> were divided.
>
>The UBS4 is aimed especially/primarily at translators, so the variants
>deemed of special interest in the translation task are its focus.  For those
>variants it lists, it gives a more complete critical apparatus than does
>NA27.
>
>Variants omitted are apparently not deemed important for translation
>purposes; I suppose this is either because:
>1. the variants do not carry significant weight to be seriously considered.
>2. if they do carry significant weight, they may not alter the meaning of
>the passage significantly enough to merit inclusion.
>
>I guess the AFHKAMEN variants might fall under this second reason: the
>difference is Present vs. Perfect tense.  The context prescribes logical
>precedence of 'my forgiving' before 'God's forgiving' by the comparison
>introduced by hWS.  Chronological precedence is added by the Perfect tense
>reading, but may still be implied in the Present tense reading.

I'm curious here; I haven't checked the evidence from the lexica for the
forms as yet, but I'm wondering: Is AFHKAMEN to be considered perfect tense
or aorist? Or is this one of those relatively common verbs whose
morphological idiosyncracies seems to promote the fusion of the perfect and
aorist tenses? Here's what the Perseus web LSJ offers, but I'd want to
check BAGD when I get to my office:

aphiêmi, 2sg. aphiês Plat. Phileb. 50d, etc., 3sg. aphiêsi, also aphiei,
Ion. apiei Hdt. 2.96, 1pl. aphiemen Aristoph. Cl. 1426; imper. aphiei
IDEM=Aristoph. Wasps 428: impf. aphiein, with double augm. êphiein Plat.
Euthyd. 293a; 3sg. aphiei Hom. Il. 1.25, IG22.777.15, Dem. 6.20, Ion. apiei
Hdt. 4.157, êphiei Thuc. 2.49, Plat. Lysis 222b, êphie Ev.Marc.11.16; 2pl.
aphiete Dem. 23.188; 3pl. aphiesan Eur. Heraclid. 821, Thuc. 2.76, Dem.
21.79, etc., êphiesan Xen. Hell. 4.6.11, êphioun Isaeus 6.40 (dub.): fut.
aphêsô Hom. Il. 2.263, etc., Ion. ap- Hdt. 7.193: pf.apheika Xen. Anab.
2.3.13, Dem. 56.26: aor. I aphêka, Ion.ap-, Ep.apheêka, used in ind. only,
Hom. Il. 23.841, etc.: aor. 2 ind. only in dual and pl., aphetên, apheimen,
apheite or aphete, apheisan or aphesan; imper. aphes, subj. aphô, opt.
apheiên (2pl. apheite Thuc. 1.139), inf. apheinai, part. apheis:--


Carl W. Conrad
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