[B-Greek] Hebrews 9:27 and 28?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Nov 13 12:20:57 EST 2003
At 12:56 PM -0400 11/13/03, Granby at SAFe-mail.net wrote:
>Hebrews 9:27 & 28
>
>27 KAI KAQ hOSON APOKEITAI TOIS ANQRWPOIS hAPAX APOQANEIN,META DE TOUTO KRISIS
>28 hOUTWS KAI hO CRISTOS hAPAX PROSENEXQEIS EIS TO POLLWN
>ANENENGKEIN >hAMARTIAS..
Transliteration corrected: Nu is always N, Omega is W, Chi is C (Xi is X).
>Hebrews 9:27 is traditionally been quoted as statement on the final
>destination of man and the finality of making a decision in this life, but
>I recently read a commentary which pointed out this may not be the case.
>
>Is the following translation acceptable based on the greek:
>27: And it is appointed for these men (the high priests discussed in
>verses 25 and 26) to die once, and then judgement
>
>28: hOUTWS.. (thus the comparison to Christ and the high priest continue)
No, because the force of the KAQ' hOSON is disregarded in that translation;
KAQ' hOSON is correlative to hOUTWS as in English "just as" is correlative
to "even so."
>Does the article in front of ANQRWPOIS in verse 27 make it refer to the
>high priests mentioned in verses 25,26 and thus narrow wich men are being
>reffered to; or does the presence of the article generalize ANQRWPOIS
>making it refer to all men in general?
No, it doesn't refer to high priests specifically but to human beings
generally; one of the functions of the article may be to point specifically
to particular individual persons or things, but the more common usage is to
indicate a general class. Probably if "high priests" were intended, TOUTOIS
would have been used instead of TOIS ANQRWPOIS.
>(the following may not be directly relevant to the greek text but if
>somebody more familiar with old testament could send me an answer off list
>I would appreciate it.)
>
>If verse 27 is narrowed to the high priests, exactly what does the
>judgement refer to ?
>
>Judging the people free of their sins after the sacrifice?
>Judging the sacrifice acceptable to god ?
>Does it simply refer to the breastplate of judgement worn by the high
>priest: Exodus 28:30 ?
I leave that question to those who think the passage DOES refer to the High
Priests; I don't believe that it does.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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