Psalm 129 LXX

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Thu Dec 26 08:36:54 EST 2002


Dear B-Greekers,

I have a couple of questions about this Psalm. Vs 1 reads like this:

EK BAQEWN EKEKRAXA SOI KURIE

1) Was it common or usual for the genitive plural of third declension
neuter nouns to be uncontracted in Hellenistic times, BAQE/WN rather than
the Attic BAQW=N?

Vss 3 and 4 read:

EAN ANOMIAS PARATHRHSHiS KURIE, KURIE, TIS hUPOSTHSETAI;
hOTI PARA SOI hO hILASMOS ESTIN

2) Isn't it necessary to insert some such thought as the following before
hOTI?

hUPOSTHSONTAI hO/MWS TINES

Surely God's provision of atonement is NOT the ground for the negative
response expected by the question KURIE, TIS hUPOSTHSETAI? That doesn't
make sense to me. I know this is poetry. Perhaps an answer lies in that
direction?

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA



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