[B-Greek] Vulgate in Proverbs 8:22

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Nov 3 12:37:04 EST 2005


On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:32:33 -0200 Octavio Rodriguez <octaviors at gmail.com>
writes:
> Dear Sir :
>  In Proverbs 8:22 :
>   I don´t know why Jerome (Vulgate) translated " possedit me initium 
> ".
>  The LXX clearly translate EKTISE ME ARCHN hODWN.
>  The question is if Jerome read BERESHIT or RESHIT ?.
> Perhpaps some MSS had BERESHIT.
>  If he read RESHIT , this imply that he translated "possedit" due to 
> another
> reason without the grammar.
>  Best Regards
> Octavio Rodriguez
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I freely admit that my Latin is rather moribund, but doesn't possedit
translate the Hebrew QfNfNiY?  R")$iYT is translated by initium.

george
gfsomsel
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