[B-Greek] Shep:98:2

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Jan 30 10:51:27 EST 2004


Dear Bert,

I have the Loeb Classical Library edition, and it doesn't number the
Shepherd of Hermas the way you do. Can you give the location according to
the original numbering?

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard

 >I was doing the following translation exercise from Shep 98:2  NUN DE
hUPO AGGELOU BLEPEIS, DIA TOU AUTOU MEN PNEUMATOS.
>I assume that Shep means Shepherd of Hermas.
>I found an online version at
>http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/shepherd.html
>I went to check my work and to see the context but this site skipped from
>chapter 97 to 99.
>first I translated this as; "but now you see by an angel, because he is of
>a spirit (spiritual)" For this to be correct I would have expected TON
>AUTON instead of TOU AUTOU.
>Now I came up with; "but now you see by an angel, through the same
>spirit".  It still seems like a strange sentence but I do not have any
>idea about the context.
>Any thoughts?
>Thank you,
>Bert de Haan






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