[B-Greek] Ignatius to Romans 1.1b

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 15:19:22 EST 2005


>Mitch Larramore wrote:
>> DEDEMENOS GAR EN CRISTWi IHSOU ELPIZW hUMAS
>> ASPASMENOS EANPER QELHMA Hi TOU AXIWQHNAI ME EIS TELOS
>> EINAI
>> It would appear that ASPASMENOS completes ELIPIZW, "I
>> hope to greet you..." I could not find the participle
>> functioning this way in Wallace. Wouldn't an
>> infinitive be expected in the GNT? Does the Nom. Ptc
>> function this way in the GNT?
>
. . .
>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.
>Carl W. Conrad

My text is different and makes sense:
DEDEMENOS GAR EN XRISTW IHSOU
ELPIZW UMAS ASPASASQAI
EANPER QELHMA 'H~
TOU AKSIWQHNAI ME
EIS TO TELOS EINAI

It is from Holmes' Apostolic Fathers, 1999, and no variant texts are
listed for ELPIZW ASPASASQAI.
"while bound/'imprisioned' in Christ Jesus,
I hope to greet you,
if it be a will {of the Lord},
for me to be accounted worthy
to reach the end"

ERRWSQE
--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
randallbuth at gmail.com



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