Hab 2:3de-4a
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jul 31 07:28:43 EDT 2002
At 12:39 PM -0700 7/30/02, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
>HAB. 2:2 KAI APEKRIQH PROS ME KURIOS KAI EIPEN GRAYON hORASIN KAI SAFWS EPI
>PUXION hOPWS DIWKHi hO ANAGINWSKWN AUTA 2:3 DIOTI ETI hORASIS EIS KAIRON
>KAI ANATELEI EIS PERAS KAI OUK EIS KENON EAN hUSTERHSHi hUPOMEINON AUTON
>hOTI ERCOMENOS hHXEI KAI OU MH CRONISHi . 2:4 EAN hUPOSTEILHTAI OUK EUDOKEI
>hH YUCH MOU EN AUTWi ...
>
>This morning I was exploring a reading of Hab 2:3de-4a (LXX-OG) which I have
>not seen discussed. Suppose we follow F.I. Andersen* and make the subject
>of hUSTERHSHi and referent of AUTON personal ("he") and then suppose we make
>the the subject of hUPOSTEILHTAI coreferential with AUTON and the subject
>of hUSTERHSHi. In other words, let us read this as if the one who is
>certainly coming ( ERCOMENOS hHXEI) is also the one who might in some
>potential world (unreal world) fail to come and incur the displeasure of the
>speaker.
>
>In other words: ". . . if he delays, wait for him, he is certainly coming.
>If he draws back my soul . . . "
>
>I am not suggesting that this is good reading of the LXX OG here. But is it
>a possible reading?
Is Andersen working from the LXX or from the MT. I think this reading of
vss. 2-3 is indeed possible ("if he is late, wait for him, for he's surely
coming and won't tarry ..."); the only thing that disturbs me is the
absence of any clear antecedent for the AUTON. And yet the fact that this
pronoun and the participle ERCOMENOS are masculine surely indicate that the
translator(?) didn't understand hORASIS to be the subject referred to in
AUTON and ERCOMENOS.
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Carl W. Conrad
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