Luke 2:2

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 26 16:26:45 EDT 2001



Carl wrote:

Personally, I agree that hAUTH hH APOGRAFH is most probably the original 
form of the subject; I think, however, that PRWTH is adverbial with  EGENETO 
(and that the word-order PRWTH EGENETO is more probable) and that EGENETO 
does here mean "occurred/took place" (= Latin FACTUS EST), and finally that 
hHGEMONEUONTOS THS SURIAS KURHNIOU is a genitive absolute explaining PRWTH 
EGENETO: "This census first took place/was held when Quirinius was governor 
of Syria."

To which Iver responded:

But I still have a problem trying to make sense of the traditional  
translation. If we say "This census first took place" or "This census took 
place first" at a particular time what does that mean? Was it not finished 
and had to be repeated a second time? Is there any contrast with another 
census? If there is not contrast, the word order is wrong.

My naive question:

Does not hAUTH itself imply a constrast? hH would have been sufficient to 
reference the APOGRAFH of the previous verse. In fact, I would have 
understood hH as demonstrative anyway. Why the hAUTH?

Mark Wilson


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