[B-Greek] Phil 2:11
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Tue Oct 14 11:36:02 EDT 2003
At 18:13 14/10/2003, Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
>That phrase definitely uses Isa 45:23 which states:
>... KAI EXOMOLOGHSETAI PASA GLWSSA TWi QEWi.
>( "... and every tongue shall praise God").
>I think that corresponds to "EIS DOXAN QEOU PATROS" of Phil 2:11. Thus it
>doesn't help solve our problem because even if we take EXOMOLOGHSETAI as
>"will confess" instead of "will praise", the text doesn't say what every
>tongue will confess.
OTOH, the JPS TaNaKh renders Is 45:23 as:
...............To Me every knee shall bend, Every tongue swear loyalty.
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains
: Hebrew remarks of the verb used in the MT:
>> express praise, extol, i.e., make a public confession of the attributes
and acts of power of a person (2Sa 22:50), (hitp) (2Ch 30:22) note: there
is a focus on the content of praise, spoken out-loud, usually in the
context of the community; <<
and Lust, J., Eynikel, E., & Hauspie, K. (2003). A Greek-English Lexicon of
the Septuagint : Revised Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart.
for EXOMOLOGEOMAI gives:
>>to confess ; to acknowledge, to admit ; to make grateful
acknowledgements, to give thanks, to sing praises <<
so that it seems to me that the LXX renders the Hebrew faithfully. Indeed,
as the EDNT entry emphasises, " In contrast to the use of the word in
secular Greek, in the LXX EXOMOLOGEOMAI takes on a totally new sense .. "
and it goes on to cite a writer as " correctly describing the use of the
verb in the sense of 'praise' as a 'lexical Hebraism' ".
Besides, BDAG ( specifically with reference to Ph. 2:11 ) notes:
>> from the mngs. confess and profess there arose, as Rtzst.,
Erlösungsmyst. 252 shows, the more general sense to praise, in
acknowledgment of divine beneficence and majesty <<
Hope this helps.
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
[ Bray, Ireland ]
"God does a lot of things in the Psalms
that He can't get away with in systematic theology."
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