[B-Greek] Lc 6:38

Daveat168 at aol.com Daveat168 at aol.com
Thu Oct 27 18:08:32 EDT 2005


The first part of the verse, as incorporated in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel reads:
'Date, et dabitur vobis: mensuram bonam, confertam et coagitatam et superfluentem dabunt in sinum vestrum.' 
Douay-Rheims translates the equivalent Vulgate verse thus:
'Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom.'
However, 'in sinum' is ambiguous, 'sinum' being accusative of either 'sin|us; |us' or 'sin|us; |i'.
The former is defined by Collins: 
m curve, fold; (fishing) net (GEOG)bay, gulf, valley; (hair) curl; (ship) sail; (toga) fold, pocket, purse; (person) bosom; (fig) protection, love, heart, hiding place.....
The latter is defined:
m large cup.
Clearly Douay Rheims read as the former, but the context clearly implies the latter, giving a picture of judiciously filling a measuring jar or basket, not as you would havfe the up-turned fold of your toga filled!
Does the Greek enlighten this point?

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