[B-Greek] AIWNOS - eternity /of old in Micah 5:2 LXX?
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Wed Aug 16 09:37:54 EDT 2006
Carl W Conrad wrote:
> As for Micah 5:2, that's 5:1 in the LXX verse-numbering. The text:
> hAI EXODOI AUTOU AP' ARCHS EX hHMERWN AIWNOS
>
> Here we have the noun AIWN rather than the adjective AIWNIOS, but the
> same range is appropriate; AIWN in LXX Greek conveys the sense of
> Heb. OLAM, which really means "creation" or "world-age" as a space-
> time continuum of "creation."
Just one quick note about this. "olam" in Mic 5:1 (MT), as in its many
other occurances (451 of them) doesn't "really mean" "world-age as a
space-time continuum of creation". Olam means "long time" or
"constancy" in the sense of lasting forever and hence, in a secondary
way, "eternal" but NOT in the philosophical sense. It can also be
understood as "forever", or even "long ago" making reference to the dim
past. It comes from a root meaning "secret" or "hidden" by distance.
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Jim West, ThD
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