Lk 1:64 PARACRHMA
Clwinbery at aol.com
Clwinbery at aol.com
Tue Sep 10 09:35:29 EDT 2002
In a message dated 9/10/02 7:41:18 AM, cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>I hereby submit the eleventh of the questions concerned with distinctive
>readings of Codex Bezae in the text of Luke's gospel.
>
>Lk 1:63-4
>NA27/USB4: KAI AITHSAS PINAKIDION EGRAYEN LEGWN: IWANNHS ESTIN ONOMA AUTOU.
>KAI EQAUMASAN PANTES. (64) ANEWiCQH DE TO STOMA AUTOU PARACRHMA KAI hH
>GLWSSA AUTOU, KAI ELALEI EULOGWN TON QEON ;
>D05: ... EGRAYEN IWANHS ESTIN TO ONOMA AUTOU KAI PARACRHMA ELUQH H GLWSSA
>AUTOU KAI EQAUMASAN PANTES
>
>PARACRHMA indicates the simultaneity of two events:
>
>(1) according to D05, at the instant at which Zacharias was writing his
>son's name he recovered his speech and this coincidence is what amazed
>the
>people who observed it;
>
>but (2) according to the critical text, the simultaneous occurrences are
>the unbinding of his mouth and tongue and his speaking in praise of God.
>
>Have I rightly described the functioning of PARACRHMA in these considerably
>variant formulations?
>
>I suppose it might be possible to read the critical text as indicating
>that
>the simultaneous events indicated by PARACRHMA are the unbinding of his
>mouth and of his tongue. But it seems to me rather that we should
>understand TO STOMA AUTOU and hH GLWSSA AUTOU as shared subjects of of
>ANEWiCQH (there is, of course, no violation of the concords here since
>hH
>GLWSSA AUTOU is a subject appended to the original subject-predicate
>sequence) and that the function of PARACRHMA here is to indicate that
>Zacharias spoke out in praise of God AS SOON AS he was able to speak.
>
>I haven't transcribed here the larger context, but what follows in both
>Codex Bezae and in the critical text is an indication of awe in the
>neighborhood and the hill country of Judea as word spread of this.
>--
I have looked at the larger context in Beza and I agree with your analysis.
This is not unusual for Beza and the old Latin, that the miraculous is
emphasized. The scribes often use synonyms and word order to strengthen
Luke's emphasis on the maraculous.
Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College
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