[B-Greek] Judith 13:19 textual variant
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Tue Sep 9 12:51:29 EDT 2003
At 14:22 09/09/2003, Susan Jeffers wrote:
>I tried looking up the Vulgate on Perseus, but what they have at Judith
>13:19 doesn't match the context of the verse in the NRSV or Rahlfs at all
>-- it's something about Holofernes and the Assyrian military. In
>BibleWorks the Vulgate for Judith 13:19 looks about twice as long as it
>needs to be and also doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the NRSV
>verse; I read just about no Latin, anyway!
Susan:
If you check with a printed copy of the Jerusalem Bible, you will find that
in the verse numbering for Judith 13 the number 19 is in ordinary Roman
type, but with 25 in italic type immediately below it. This is how the JB
distinguishes places where the Vulgate numbering differs from the Greek.
Incidentally, the first note ( in the study edition ) for Judith remarks
that " the Vulgate text differs considerably from the Greek ".
-- and here is the Vulgate of Jd 13:25 ( courtesy Bible Windows ):
>> 13:25 quia hodie nomen tuum ita magnificavit ut non recedat laus tua
de ore hominum qui memores fuerint virtutis Domini in aeternum pro quibus
non pepercisti animae tuae propter angustias et tribulationem generis
tui sed subvenisti ruinae ante conspectum Dei nostri <<
Happy wrestling with the Latin <g>
Regards,
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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