[B-Greek] Ignatius to Romans 1.1b

Arto Hoikkala arto.hoikkala at kolumbus.fi
Sun Dec 11 14:48:12 EST 2005


Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>   
>> [Mitch] DEDEMENOS GAR EN CRISTWi IHSOU ELPIZW hUMAS
>> ASPASMENOS EANPER QELHMA Hi TOU AXIWQHNAI ME EIS TELOS
>> EINAI
>>     
> I'm frankly puzzled by this; yes, there are two acutes on ASPASMENOS,  
> but in fact ASPASMENOS is not a recognizable form of the only verb  
> that comes into question, ASPAZOMAI. A perfect participle should be  
> HSPASMENOS, present ASPAZOMENOS, aorist ASPASAMENOS. But one expects  
> ELPIZW to be followed by an infinitive such as ASPAZESQAI or  
> ASPASASQAI.  Translations that I've looked at all offer "I hope to  
> greet you" but that cannot be derived from the text as shown above,  
> which does appear to be the CCEL Greek text.
>   
Greek text in Holmes' book "The Apostolic Fathers" (1999) has ASPASASQAI 
and no footnotes. So the CCEL text is probably just incorrect.

Arto Hoikkala
Finland




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