Lk 1:79 FWS (Codex Bezae 05)
Richard A. Stauch
rstauch at charter.net
Wed Sep 11 00:01:00 EDT 2002
Let me correct myself. I was looking back at some of my old notes as I
tried to translate parts of Odes, and the number "15" looked like "IS"
for Isaiah. In fact, Odes 1:1 = Exodus 15:21b, Odes 1:2-4 = Exodus
15:2-4. Well, that's as far as I got before I got disgusted with it, and
quit.
Now, I feel better.
Richard Allan Stauch
Long Beach, CA
http://www.rstauch.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A. Stauch [mailto:rstauch at charter.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:43 PM
> To: 'Glendon M. Gross'; 'Biblical Greek'
> Subject: RE: [b-greek] RE: Lk 1:79 FWS (Codex Bezae 05)
>
> 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
> > Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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> >
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