[B-Greek] Galatians 5:17
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri May 30 13:48:17 EDT 2003
At 8:56 AM -0700 5/30/03, Chadwick Wilcox wrote:
>There is a iva clause where in one text (UBS) it is: iva mh ha eav
>thelete; and in another text (majority text) it is: iva mh ha av thelete.
>Are there any thoughts on this? Wherein the first it says: In order that
>not the things except you will. In the second it says: In order that not
>the things whatever you will. I would appreciate any and all reactions to
>the preceeding, thank you.
This would be clearer if you would use the standard B-Greek ASCII
transliteration scheme; I can't tell if you've simply pasted from a text in
some Greek font or what, but in standard transliteration into ASCII, it is:
UBS: hINA MH hA EAN QELHTE TAUTA POIHTE
MT: hINA MH hA AN QELHTE TAUTA POIHTE
The meaning is actually the same in both versions: EAN (originally a
combination of EI + AN) is quite commonly used in Hellenistic Greek where
older Greek had only AN. Both versions bear the same sense: "so that you
don't (implicitly 'can't') do whatsoever things you wish (to do)." I think
that the hINA clause in this instance is better understood as a result
clause than as a purpose clause.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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