[B-Greek] Question on LXX Psalm 35:5 (Psa 36:5)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Dec 7 15:59:03 EST 2004
At 3:30 PM -0500 12/7/04, Ken Penner wrote:
>
>> KURIE EN TWi OURANWi TO ELEOS SOU KAI H
>> ALHQEIA SOU EWS TWN NEFELWN.
>
>> 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?"
>
>I am reminded of the vocative followed by articular "in heaven" in Matthew
>6:9: PATER hHMWN hO EN TOIS OURANOIS.
>But I am not sure whether my impression that the article is normally present
>in such constructions is correct.
Yes indeed; in the construction in Mt 6:9 the phrase is attributive and so
marked by the article (the substantive phrase is comparable to a relative
clause), but in LXX Ps 35:5 the phrase is predicative. The article makes
all the difference in the world.
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Carl W. Conrad
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