Lk 1:79 FWS (Codex Bezae 05)
Richard A. Stauch
rstauch at charter.net
Tue Sep 10 23:42:35 EDT 2002
Hi Glendon,
If I may interject, since I have often been astounded at the amount of
Odes that actually repeats sections of Exodus and Isaiah, I thought
perhaps George might have missed a point, too. But upon checking, he is
exactly right. (Pardon the messy paste, but you can see that everything
is exactly the same.)
LXT Odes 9:79 evpifa/nai toi/j evn sko,tei kai. skia/| qana,tou
kaqhme,noij tou/ kateuqu/nai tou.j po,daj h`mw/n eivj o`do.n eivrh,nhj
BYZ Luke 1:79 evpifa/nai toi/j evn sko,tei kai. skia/| qana,tou
kaqhme,noij tou/ kateuqu/nai tou.j po,daj h`mw/n eivj o`do.n eivrh,nhj
Peace,
Richard Allan Stauch
Long Beach, CA
http://www.rstauch.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glendon M. Gross [mailto:gross at xinetd.ath.cx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:18 PM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] RE: Lk 1:79 FWS (Codex Bezae 05)
>
> I have a question to ask regarding this passage. In my Greek NT it
> appears
> in
> Boldface, implying that the NT writer is quoting the LXX here. Would
it
> be
> appropriate
> to look at the word order in the LXX to determine the appropriate
> grammatical function
> in Luke, or would that be outside of the legitimate scope of the
> translator
> in
> understanding this passage?
>
> One of the reasons I ask this is that my footnote to Luke 1:78-79
points
> to
> Isaiah 9:2, which reads
>
> "hO LAOS hO POREUOMENOS EN SKOTEI, IDETE FWS MEGA. hOI KATOIKOUNTES EN
> XWRA
> SXIA QANATOU, FWS LAMPSEI EPH h'UMAS."
> Isn't it interesting that the word FWS appears twice in this verse?
If I
> am
> not mistaken, it is the direct object
> of IDETE in the first phrase, and the subject of LAMPSEI in the
second.
> If
> in fact the NT writer was quoting
> this verse from the LXX, wouldn't it make sense to consider that he
could
> be
> paraphrasing the first phrase?
> If so, then possibly this verse would support your option (2), that
FWS is
> direct object of a transitive EPIFANAI.
> Nevertheless, the verb used here is LAMPSEI as opposed to EPIFANAI. I
am
> curious to know your
> opinion on this, and whether you think that the author of Codex Bezae
> might
> have been cognizant of the
> text that the author of Luke was quoting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glendon Gross
> Amateur Greek Student
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:39 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Lk 1:79 FWS (Codex Bezae 05)
>
>
> I hereby submit the twelfth of the questions concerned with
distinctive
> readings of Codex Bezae in chapter 1 of the text of Luke's gospel.
>
> Lk 1:78-79
> NA27/USB4: ... EN hOIS EPISKEYETAI hHMAS ANATOLH EX hUYOUS, (79)
EPIFANAI
> TOIS EN SKOTEI KAI SKIAi QANATOU KAQHMENOIS, ... ;
> D05: ... EN hOIS EPESKYATO hHMAS ANATOLH EX hUYOUS (79) EPIFANAI FWS
TOIS
> EN SKOTEI KAI SKIAi QANATOU KAQHMENOIS ...
>
> FWS does not appear in the critical text but only in Codex Bezae.
Should
> it
> there be deemed as (1) an attribute of ANATOLH and subject of an
> intransitive EPIFANAI (which might be either transitive or
intransitive
> here--cf. citation from BDAG below): "a light to shine (upon)" or as
(2)
> direct object of a transitive EPIFANAI: "to make a light shine (upon).
>
> How is this phrase in Codex Bezae best rendered, in view of the fact
that
> ANATOLH might seem in Codex Bezae to allude to the "face of the Lord
in
> 1:76 (PRO PROSWPOU KURIOU in D05 where ENWPION KURIOU is the reading
of
> the
> critical text: PROPOREUSHi gar ENWPION (or PRO PROSWPOU KURIOU)
hETOIMASAI
> hODOUS AUTOU. On the other hand, I think it might reasonably be argued
> that
> PRO PROSWPOU with KURIOU is strictly idiomatic and means simply "ahead
of"
> or "preceding" as in the texts cited regularly with accounts of the
> appearance of John the Baptist as "the messenger sent ahead of the
Lord";
> if that is so, then PRO PROSWPOU KURIOU is hardly different in meaning
> from
> ENWPION KURIOU.
>
> BDAG: APOFAINW
> 2. to provide illumination, give light to, act., ext. of mng. 1:
Lk
> 1:79. There is a slight diff. between this apparently intr. use and
the
> next, which is clearly trans. (On the theme of divine consideration in
> providing light in darkness s. X. Mem. 4, 3, 4.)
> 3. to make one's presence known, become apparent, act., ext. of
> mng. 1 (Theocr. 2, 11 of stars; Polyb. 5, 6, 6 of daylight; Dt 33:2;
Ps
> 117:27) of sun and stars Ac 27:20. Cp. 2 above.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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