SUGCEW & SUGCUSIS Acts 19:29,32 Gen 11:7,9
Steven Lo Vullo
slovullo at mac.com
Sat Sep 28 22:16:34 EDT 2002
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 01:45 PM, c stirling bartholomew
wrote:
> The use of the cognates SUGCEW & SUGCUSIS in Acts 19:29,32 seems to
> resonate
> with the LXX use of the same in Gen 11:7,9. J. Wevers* notes that these
> words are used to render a cognate pair from BBL in the MT Gen 11:7,9.
>
> Kind of surprised not to see this mentioned in Barrett (Acts, ICC) or
> Fitzmyer (Acts, AB) or in any other source I have handy on Acts.
>
> ACTS 19:29 KAI EPLHSQH hH POLIS THS SUGCUSEWS, hWRMHSAN TE hOMOQUMADON
> EIS
> TO QEATRON SUNARPASANTES GAION KAI ARISTARCON MAKEDONAS, SUNEKDHMOUS
> PAULOU.
> ACTS 19:32 ALLOI MEN OUN ALLO TI EKRAZON: HN GAR hH EKKLHSIA
> SUGKECUMENH KAI
> hOI PLEIOUS OUK HiDEISAN TINOS hENEKA SUNELHLUQEISAN.
>
> GEN. 11:7 DEUTE KAI KATABANTES SUGCEWMEN EKEI AUTWN THN GLWSSAN hINA MH
> AKOUSWSIN hEKASTOS THN FWNHN TOU PLHSION
> GEN. 11:9 DIA TOUTO EKLHQH TO ONOMA AUTHS SUGCUSIS hOTI EKEI SUNECEEN
> KURIOS
> TA CEILH PASHS THS GHS KAI EKEIQEN DIESPEIREN AUTOUS KURIOS hO QEOS EPI
> PROSWPON PASHS THS GHS
Clay:
Why would you choose Acts 19.29,32 rather than, say, Acts 21.27, 31 as
an allusion to Gen 11.7,9? If I had to choose a text in Acts as an
allusion to Gen 11.7, 9, it would be Acts 2.6:
GENOMENHS DE THS FWNHS TAUTHS SUNHLQEN TO PLHQOS KAI *SUNECUQH*, hOTI
HKOUON hEIS hEKASTOS THi IDIAi DIALEKTWi LALOUNTWN AUTWN.
In the Genesis 11 passage the *confusion* of tongues leads to the
confusion of the city; in Acts 2, commonly believed to allude to Gen 11
and to be the reversal of that judgment, it is the *intelligibility* of
tongues that leads to confusion. Irony? There are other verbal
parallels in the context as well.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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