Night and Day

Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Feb 8 08:01:16 EST 2000


   1 Clement 27:7 gives a quotation of LXX Ps. 19:1-3, which includes the
puzzling hH hHMERA THi hHMERAi EREUGETAI RHMA KAI NUX NUKTI ANAGGELLEI
GNWSIN.  A typical translation is something like "day utters speech to day
and night proclaims knowledge to night."  But I have no idea what that
means (i.e., in English) (and note: I'm *not* asking what the original
Hebrew meant, but what the Greek in 1 Clement did).

   What would you think of something a bit more paraphrastic that, while
still strange, can at least be construed, something like:  "One day utters
a word to another, and one night proclaims knowledge to the next"?

-- Bart D. Ehrman
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill




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