[B-Greek] Shepherd of Hermas 78:2
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Fri Jan 30 20:55:51 EST 2004
My apologies to the list for blank messages.
Here is one more try, after checking my mailer configuration.
At 15:46 30/01/2004, bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca wrote:
NUN DE hUPO AGGELOU BLEPEIS, DIA TOU AUTOU MEN PNEUMATOS.
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?
Bert:
The first thing I noticed is that we have here a reversal of the usual
MEN..........DE, so you came quite close to the translation in:
Osiek, Carolyn, and Helmut Koester, eds. Shepherd of Hermas: A Commentary.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999
>> Now you are seeing through an angel, yet through the same spirit <<
where the _now_ .... _yet_ matches the DE........MEN
If it's any consolation to you, the commentary ( above ) begins :
>>Verse 2 is difficult to interpret, and is probably corrupt.<<
Their translation of v.2 reads: " Since you were weaker in the flesh, it
was not revealed to you through an angel. Then you were fortified by the
spirit and strengthened in your own strength, so as to be able to see an
angel. Then the building of the tower was revealed to you by the church.
You have seen everything in a beautiful and seemly way, as it were,
virginally. Now you are seeing through an angel, yet through the same spirit."
Even then, I think you might need some ideas on the context -- you will
find them on p.212-213 of the commentary.
P.S
>> the traditional way of numbering the sections of Hermas was
supplemented by a new consecutive system in Whittaker's critical edition of
1956. Since then, translators and commentators have chose one or the other
or a combination of both <<
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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