3 Corinthians 27

Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Wed Dec 11 09:39:05 EST 2002


   Yeah, good point.  Not quite sure, though, as there is a BALLETE nearby
that looks like it is indicative 2 pl.  If you're right, then I guess this
too would be BALLETAI?  The whole prior sentence runs (I've standardized
the spelling; several iticisms and abbreviations here):

	OU ... OIDASIN TON EPI TOU PUROU SPORON H TWN ALLWN SPERMATWN OTI
GUMNA BALLETE EIS THN GHN KAI SYNFQARENTA KATW HGERQH EN QELHMATI QEOU EN
SWMA KAI HMFIESMENA

   Maybe this *does* work better.

   Any ideas on the end of the other sentence?

--- Bart

Bart Ehrman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


 On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 9:05 AM -0500 12/11/02, Bart Ehrman wrote:
> >    A tricky passage in the Bodmer papyrus text of 3 Corinthians; the
> >author is trying to establish that there really will be a resurrection of
> >the flesh, and uses the analogy of the seed (cf. 1 Cor. 15), pointing out
> >that it is sown naked but then raised clothed, so to say.  And then:
> >
> >	WSTE OU MONON TO SWMA EGEIRETE TO BLHQEN ALLA POLLOSTON ORQON
> >HULOGHMENON.
> >
> >        Which means something like "so that not only do you raise up the
> >body that is cast down, but it is multiplied, erect, and blessed."
> >
> >   Or is there a better way to deal with the final three words (polloston,
> >orthon, huloghmenon)?
>
> Bart, this isn't an answer to your chief question, but since this is a
> papyrus, I wonder whether it isn't likely that EGEIRETE is not to be
> understood as a present active 2 pl. imperative but rather as a 3d sg. MP
> indicative, i.e. EGEIRETAI--I think that this E for AI is not uncommon in
> papyri.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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