Luke 2:2

Jon Weatherly jweather at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 16:48:58 EDT 2001


 
  Mark Wilson <emory2oo2 at hotmail.com> wrote: 

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?


hAUTH can imply a contrast with another census, especially with PRWTH, and this is the very point that makes the interpretation "This census was before ..." an appealing one. The contrast is then with the well-known census of A.D. 6 that sparked riots leading to the deposition of Archelaeus. Otherwise, there's no point of contrast that I can see.

hAUTH could indicate simply "this census that I just mentioned," but then PRWTH seems to dangle with no contribution to the meaning of the sentence. In all other respects, the usual interpretation of this text seems satisfactory from a syntactical point of view, but I am forced to consider "before" to find a reasonable sense for PRWTH in light of hAUTH.
Jon WeatherlyCincinnati Bible College and Seminary


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