[B-Greek] pepoithos in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13?

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Oct 28 07:48:27 EST 2003


At 06:32 28/10/2003, michaelhayes at juno.com wrote:

>Though I do believe the text you selected is a
>rarity and there are very few of these future perfect constructions in
>the NT.  I could be wrong on that however.  I look forward to hear other
>comments on this particular text.

Michael:

BDF 352 notes: Lk. 12:52  " ESONTAI .......DIAMEMERISMENOI
                         Mt. 16:19  " ESTAI  DEDEMENON  ( and again, 18:18 )
Also, " periphrasis of the fut. perf. is also the rule in the papyri )

As regards the original query from Philip, there are three examples of this 
particular  periphrastic phrase in the LXX ( word order reversed: PEPOIQWS 
ESOMAI EP' AUTWi ):
2 Sa 22:3
Is. 8:17; 12:2 [ additionally, 17:7 has PEPOIQWS ESTAI ]

Westcott [ Westcott, B.F. On the Epistle to the Hebrews. Grand Rapids: 
Eerdmans, 1984 repr.] drew heavily on this connection:

 >> Words nearly identical occur in the LXX. in Is. viii. 17 ; 2 Sam. xxii.  3.
The reference is certainly, as it appears, to ls. viii. 17, where the words
immediately precede the following quotation. The two  sentences  of  Isaiah
are separated because they represent two aspects of the typical prophet  in
his relation to Christ. In the first  the  prophet  declares  his  personal
faith on God in the midst of judgments. In the second he stands forth  with
his children as representing ' the remnant,' the seed  of  the  Church,  in
Israel. The representative of God rests in his heavenly Father, and  he  is
not alone: his children  are  already  with  him  to  continue  the  divine
relation.<<



Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie





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