3 Corinthians 27

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Wed Dec 11 20:45:51 EST 2002



In a message dated 12/11/02 8:56:56 AM, cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:

>At 9:39 AM -0500 12/11/02, Bart Ehrman wrote:
>>   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.
>
>I think this clinches it; surely all those neuter plurals are subjects
>of
>what must be BALLET(AI) and then note HGERQH as the second verb; it must
>be
>3d sg. verb with n. pl. subject.
>
>>   Any ideas on the end of the other sentence?
>>> >
>>> >   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)?
>
>Well, BDAG has an entry under POLLOSTOS precisely for this passage:
>
>abounding--of the resurrected body (in imagery of a grain of wheat) SWMA
>... POLLOSTON ORQON HULOGHMENON a body . . . abounding/teeming (because
>it
>is productive), upright, and blessed AcPlCor 2:27.-DELG s.v. POLUS.
>-- 
I found four instances in Mins. 13 in the gospel of John of the substitution 
of E for AI and three of the reverse. It is certainly a common exchange in 
minuscules of the 10th thru 13th centuries where I have been collating for 
this semester. 

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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