GALATIANS, DIA

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jun 17 14:17:24 EDT 2000


on 06/17/00 7:12 AM, abilene wrote:

> In the English  New-T estament , DIA is translated by "after", only two times,
> in Gal 2,1 and  in Mc 2,1: DI HMERWN = few days later.
> Which  example whith DIA meaning obviously "after"?

I would add to this:

 Acts 24:17 DI' ETWN DE PLEIONWN
Acts 27:5 DI' hHMERWON DEKAPENTE (v.l.  614, 2147 pc. (h) sy(h))

And also look at the Vulgate's rendering of
Matt. 26:61 DIA TRIWN hHMERWN ==> POST TRIDUUM

Perhaps POST in the Latin Vulgate is flexible enough to not cause a problem
here but my quick look at Gildersleve & Lodge (a classical grammar not
Vulgate) seemed to indicate otherwise. The parallels to Matt. 26:61 in John
2:19 etc. seem to point in the other direction from the Vulgate, so there is
probably little question what is actually intended by  DIA TRIWN hHMERWN in
Matt. 26:61. However, the Vulgate rendering does raise a question about how
this would have been understood by an early reader/translator.

I don't know Latin well enough to make a call on this one and I have no
Grammar for Vulgate Latin anyway so I will leave this question for someone
else.  

Clay

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