[B-Greek] Question on LXX Psalm 35:5 (Psa 36:5)

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 7 12:17:41 EST 2004



"Henry T. Carmichael" wrote:

> The verse reads: KURIE EN TWi OURANWi TO ELEOS SOU KAI H ALHQEIA SOU EWS
> TWN NEFELWN.
>
> The Brenton translation has "O Lord, thy mercy is in the heavens and thy
> truth (reaches) to the clouds."  Whiston is almost identical, using
> "(reacheth)."
>
> My rendering comes out: "O Lord in heaven, thy mercy and thy truth
> (reach) to the clouds."
>
> Is there good reason in the Greek to connect "EN TWi OURANWi" with "TO
> ELEWS SOU" rather than with "KURIE?"

Possibly because Psalms are often set out in synonymous or step parallelism?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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