Fwd: Re : Lk 1:76

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 11 08:50:49 EDT 2002


CWC forwarding note: I am forwarding to the list the response of Mme.
Chabert d'Hyères, Englished as well as I was able, to another part of my
message of yesterday:

In a message dated 9/10/2002 8:41:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu wrote:

>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.

What is strange, Carl, it is that in the parallel that you cite with John
the Baptist in Lk 7:27: APOSTELLW TON AGGELON MOU PRO PROSWPOU SOU, the
pronoun SOU does not appear in D05. Contrary to Ex 23:20 whence this
quotation is drawn, PRO PROSWPOU is taken by Luc with the absolute sense "I
send my messenger in front of the Face".

Moreover in Lk 1, the choice of the prepositions ENWPION, ENANTI and PRO
PROSWPOU appears gradual. ENWPION TOU QEOU in 1:6 - according to D05 - does
not comprise the nuance of opposition or confrontation which EN-ANTI-ON
(accepted in the "critical text") holds. EN-ANTI TOU QEOU in Lk 1:9 refers
to the service performed by the high priest entering the Holy of Holies;
ENANTI stressed the religious fear inspired by the divine presence (Ex
28:12, 30 etc., chiefly according to MS A). Could PRO PROSWPOU in 1:76 be
chosen to mark a difference between these two verses, a difference which
might be explained by Lk 7:27D would explain ... ?

Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères
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