Ro. 8:26
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Thu Jul 18 11:14:11 EDT 2002
The combination of STENAGMOI and ALALHTOI occurs in Ro. 8:26.
The adjective is a hapax in the NT and not at all in the LXX ( and the noun
appears elsewhere in the NT only in Ac. 7: 34. )
I am aware that, starting with Origen, and right into our own times, the
meaning of ALALHTOS has been disputed, with a sharp divide along
"glossalalia"/charismatic lines. I have no desire to revisit that question
( nor do the B-GREEK guide-lines allow me to ).
However, I see that BDAG has this citation:
>> Ro 8:26. JSchniewind, Nachgelassene Reden u. Aufsätze, ed. EKähler
52, 86; EKäsemann, Der gottesdienstliche Schrei nach der Freiheit:
Apophoreta, EHaenchen Festschr. Beih. ZNW 30 64, 14950 (both for the
meaning inexpressible). <<<
As a non-German speaker, I would welcome any posting giving the nub of the
arguments in these citations.
I know that Cranfield says about Kasemann " he has offered little in the
way of postive argument in support ".
Incidentally, BDAG seems to lean on later NT versions as the entry for
ALALHTOS begins:
>> Philod. in Anth. Pal. 5, 4; Cyranides p. 19, 19) unexpressed, wordless
STENAGMOI A. sighs too deep for words (so the Syr. and Armen. tr.; the
Vulgate renders it inenarrabilis, inexpressible) <<
and Zerwick & Grosvenor note of ALALHTOS:
>> un-utterable or wordless ( Greg. Nyssa 4th. cent. )
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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