Luke 1:35

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Mon Sep 4 13:48:28 EDT 2000


At 10:18 04/09/00, "Rosangela Lira" <lira at escelsa.com.br> wrote:

>Luke 1:35 says, "KAI TO GENNWMENON hAGION KLHQHSETAI hUIOS QEOU". It seems
>the word GENNWMENON doesn't appear in all the manuscripts.

According to the critical apparatus in N/A 27, the modification which 
appears in a few MSS is not the _omission_ of GNNWMENON but the _addition_ 
of EK SOU

>The Modern King James Version
>puts it: "Therefore also that Holy Being who shall be born of thee shall be
>called the Son of God"; the New King James Version renders it:
>"Therefore,
>also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God";

Moule's view [ Moule, C.F.D. An Idiom Book of N.T Greek. Cambridge: C.U.P, 
1984.] at p.107 this is " a distinctly irregular usage "  As against this 
treatment of hAGION as a substantative, the commnetators prefer the 
predicate use, either in a verbless clause " will be holy" " will be called 
Son of God " or as the predicate of  KLHQHSETAI
i.e as you quote:

>and
>the RSV puts it: "Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the
>Son of God".

The NAB also renders it as:
 >>Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.<<

Regards
Maurice



Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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