Lk 2:32 FWS EIS APOKALUYIN (Luke in Codex Bezae)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 26 07:04:44 EDT 2002


Englished and submitted for Mme Chabert d'Hyères:

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:39:26 +0000
From: "S Chabert d'Hyères" <laodicy at ifrance.com>

Reply to George Somsel

>>Lk 2:32:
 - D05 : FWS EIS APOKALUYIN KAI DOXAN
>> - NA27: FWS EIS APOKALUYIN EQNWN KAI DOXAN

>A. T. Robertson in his _A Grammar of the Greek New Testament_, pp. 499 ff.
>speaks of the 'objective genitive'.   ...Similarly he notes that in Acts 4.9
EPI EUERGESIAi ANQRWPOU ASQENOUS it is a good deed which is done 'to' the
sick man.

A propos de   EUERGESIAi ,   BDAG précise :  "with the obj. gen. of the one
who benefits by it (Pla., Leg 850b EUERGESIAi POLEWS). Luc s'est donc servi
d'une tournure idiomatique qui ne peut pas rendre  compte du génitif EQNWN
en Lk 2:32.

With regard to EUERGESIAi, BDAG states: "with the obj. gen. of the one who
benefits by it (Pla., Leg 850b EUERGESIAi POLEWS). Luke thus employed an
idiomatic nuance which cannot account for the genitive EQNWN in Lk 2:32.

"In
>Col 2:18, QRHSKEIAi TWN AGGELWN, it is worship 'paid to' angels, while EIS
>THN hUPAKOUHN TOU XRISTOU (2 Cor. 10:5) is obedience 'to' Christ.

BDAG likewise notes QRHSKEIAi with genitive and hUPAKOUHN with genitive.

>Dan Wallace in _Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics_, pp. 116 ff. notes that
>the key to the identification of the objective genitive is the ability to
>convert a noun having a verbal idea into a verbal form and turn the
>genitive into the direct object.  He also notes that "A simpler and less
>fool-proof method is to supply for the word *of* the words *for, about,
>concerning, toward,* or sometimes *against*."
>
>In the case at hand we have a noun which has a verbal idea -- FWS
>(FWTIZW).  It works quite well to convert this to "to enlighten the
>gentiles".  The problem is that APOKALUYIS has been inserted to define the
>purpose of the 'enlightenment.'

So the problem of EQNWN remains. I think that the term was added with the
initial sentence, that do think about it you think?

Thanks for your valuable research,
Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères






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