2 Cor 5:17

Mark DelCogliano cassian at dellepro.com
Tue Jul 23 16:47:07 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
> > ...The Rheims NT, though, offers this translation:
> > If then any be in Christ a new creature,...

Clayton Stirling Bartholomew wrote:
:
> 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.

Clay's hunch is on the money. The [Douay]-Rheims translation was made from
the Vulgate. Interestingly, the Latin here is far looser than the NT usually
exhibits: I suppose QUA ERGO attempts to approximate the hWSTE, indicating
result. But there is nothing in the Latin corresponding to the Greek TIS,
which may validate the Rheims translation. Indeed, that is a perfectly
acceptable way of construing the Latin.

In any event, I don't the Rheims translation can be relied on for
understanding the Greek, at least in 2 Cor 5:17.

Mark DelCogliano




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