[B-Greek] 1 Peter 1:15

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Dec 31 21:31:42 EST 2004


At 9:57 AM +1000 1/1/05, craig wrote:
>> > >CWC:
>> > >... it leaves completely unanswered why a form such as GENHQHTE is
>> > >semantically equivalent to the more erstwhile more common 
>> > form GENESQE,
>> 
>> Why do you think Peter changes from GENESQE in 1:16 LXX quote 
>> to GENHQHTE in
>> 1:15?
>> 
>> Is it evidence that they mean the same thing, or is he making a subtle
>> distinction (if so, what)?
>
>Further, any comments about LXX related verses in Leviticus actually using
>ESESQE (future) and not GENESQE? (I notice there may be a variant of 1 Peter
>1:16 with ESESQE, but my apparatus isn't that great...)

NA27 has hAGIOI GENHQHTE in 1:15, hAGIOI ESESQE in 1:16; Textus Receptus has
hAGIOI GENHQHTE in 1:15, hAGIOI GENESQE in 1:16; Majority Text has hAGIOI
GENHQHTE in 1:15, hAGIOI GINESQE (present imperative) in 1:16. The future
indicative in the Greek is common in translation of 1 and 2 plural commandments;
my guess is that TR's aorist imperative and MT's present imperative display the
verbs of the Lev. assimilated to the verb GENHQHTE of 1:15. This is hardly
evidence for any distinction of meaning between middle and passive
morphoparadigms of the verb GINOMAI. If you do a search of forms of GINOMAI
you'll find there are 492 aorist forms of the verb in the GNT, 447 with "middle"
(MAI/SAI/TAI;MHN/SO/TO) inflection, 45 with the -QH- form. The forms are
concurrent and both may be found in several NT documents (e.g., in 1 Peter there
are 3 aorist "passive" forms in -QH-,1 aorist "middle" form; in 2 Peter there is
1 aorist "passive" form in -QH-, 3 aorist "middle" forms) but one will have
difficulty drawing a clear semantic distinction between the different
morphoparadigms.

Carl W. Conrad
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