[B-Greek] Is PALIN in Heb 1:6 ambiguous?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 11 09:59:15 EST 2006


PALIN probably does function as an adv to EISAGAGHi here.  I would suggest looking at LSJ s.v. EISAGW III.  Here it has the force of "say."  I'm not sure why BDAG doesn't mention this usage.  In this way 1.6a would function as an introductory formula to 1.6b indicating a subsequent mention of the PRWTOTOKOS.  You might take a look at Ps 96.7 (LXX, 97.7 MT) and see where he might get the concept though PRWTOTOKOS is not used there.
 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Kimmo Huovila <kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:45:17 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Is PALIN in Heb 1:6 ambiguous?


Heb. 1:6
hOTAN DE PALIN EISAGAGHi TON PRWTOTOKON EIS THN OIKOUMENEN, LEGEI;

It seems that many commentators and translators consider that PALIN in Heb 1:6 
is ambiguous and could be used either to indicate that there is one more 
quotation to the series or to mark the coming specifically not the first 
coming. Is this supposed ambiguity real? The word order places PALIN within 
the subordinate clause (hOTAN DE PALIN, not PALIN DE hOTAN). Does this allow 
PALIN to be taken as a sentence connector instead of an adverbial to 
EISAGAGHi? Are there any parallels where PALIN refers to the whole sentence, 
but is placed within a subordinate clause? Or does the phrase refer 
unambiguously to the second (or not first) coming of the firstborn?

Kimmo Huovila
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