2 Cor 5:17
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jul 23 16:02:31 EDT 2002
on 7/23/02 11:09 AM, sandra hack polaski wrote:
> I'm considering the famously terse 2 Cor 5:17a:
> hWSTE EI TIS EN CRISTW KAINH KTISIS
> with the help, as it turns out, of my _Precise Parallel NT_ (about which
> there was some discussion on this list a little while ago). Most of the
> translations add both a form of the verb "to be" and a "he is" or "there is"
> to the phrase:
> ...if any man be in Christ he is a new creature...(KJV)
> ...if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation... (NIV)
> ...if anyone is in Christ there is a new creation... ((NRSV)
> ...whoever is in Christ is a new creation... (NAB)
> and so forth. The Rheims NT, though, offers this translation:
> If then any be in Christ a new creature,...
> making the whole thing the protasis of a statement that will be completed by
> ...the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.
> In its favor, this translation requires the addition of fewer elements to
> make sense. Against it, it seems to assume an argument that the text hasn't
> made (that in Christ one is a new creature), whereas the other translations
> have this assertion being made in this verse.
> Any ideas?
> --Sandra Hack Polaski
CAIRE Sandra,
2COR. 5:17 hWSTE EI TIS EN CRISTWi, KAINH KTISIS: TA ARCAIA PARHLQEN, IDOU
GEGONEN KAINA:
Following a hunch, I took a look at the Vulgate . . .
2Cor. 5:17 si qua ergo in Christo nova creatura vetera transierunt ecce
facta sunt nova
It appears that The Rheims NT may have followed the Vulgate in making
EI TIS EN CRISTWi, KAINH KTISIS the protasis.
. . . and then, following habit I took a look at H.A.W. Meyer who faults
this reading " . . . the apodosis would contain nothing else than was in the
protasis; besides the prefixing of EN CRISTWi would not be adequately
accounted for. "
. . . following another habit I took a look at H. Alford who similar to
Meyer states ". . . the second member would be a mere reassertion of the
first."
Not sure I understand Meyer's comment about the position of EN CRISTWi.
Greetings,
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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