[B-Greek] Part2- Some grammar issues in Mt1:24 and Mt1:25
Binh Nguyen
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Tue Dec 19 10:23:11 EST 2006
May I resend as Part 2 to fit the 50K rule
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Footnote 1: WHEN WAS JOSEPH REQUESTED BY THE ANGEL TO EXPRESS HIS CONSENT TO BE MARYS HUSBAND AND THE LORDS ADOPTING FATHER? BEFORE CHRIST WAS CONCEIVED
Prin meant before. E (eta 182 meant and also as compared to E eta 181(article the) as both were found in verse 18. Joined together as a pair, the idiom prin + eta 182 (Latin CUM ANTEQUAM) denoted that fact1 had occurred in time#1 PRIN (before - Latin cum) fact2 of time #2 and E (eta182- as well as before (latin antequam) fact3 of time#3. The Latin cum and antequam each separately introduced its own verb but since the pair prin e was inseparable so prin was grammatically placed not before the fact of time#2 it introduced (stated or impliedl) but immediately after it. Please compare 4 facts and timing of Mt 1: 18 with the facts of the following examples:
Example 1: Andres adelphoi kai pateres, akousate. Ho theos tês doxês ôphthê tô patri hêmôn Abraam onti en tê Mesopotamia prin ê (eta 182) katoikêsai auton en Charran
Example 2: tautê tê nukti prin ê (eta182) dis alektora phônêsai tris me aparnesê- Peter, in this very night, before (prin fact #2 the cock crows the first time was implied), and also before (h êta182) the cock crows the second time (fact#3) then three times you will deny (fact#1) me thoroughly (Mc 14:30)
Before (prin) Mary, His Mother, was engaged (aras/kiddhusin) to Joseph , as well as before (e) the day they lived together (onah/chuppah), The Lords coming was fully made known (eurethe/ inventa) to Joseph
that Mary in her womb having a Child from The Holy Spirit. And Joseph said YES but then was felled down.
Footnote 2: DID THE ANGEL APPEAR TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM OR THE ANGEL VISITED HIM BECAUSE OF HIS TROUBLES IN HIS THINKING? WHY WAS HE IN GREAT FEAR WHEN THE ANGEL VISITED HIM
Kata onar- In somnis (somnium /somnus in plural): according to his dream, figuratively according to his worries, his trouble in thinking, his nightmare or depression, or terror
- Phobeo meant an extreme fear caused by terror.
- Ephane, apparuit meant manifestly shined out, factually arrived in person. We celebrate the Epiphany Of The Lord because He Came in His Person as Our Savior. From The Holy Spirit, the angel came to Mary, Zechariah and Joseph in the same way. There was no evidence to associate the trouble thinking Joseph with the Old Testament dreaming Joseph. The angel spent almost a day with Lot, Gideon and Manoah (Gen 19, Judges 6 and Judges 13). The annunciation to Mary was long as Luke presented but the angels discussion with Joseph, in both occasions, could have been longer in order to persuade him. Two visits were required to convince Joseph. Please see in Matthew 2 the angel must have also twice appeared to Joseph before he made the final decision to return the Child from Egypt to the homeland, even so, carefully listening to the news, he chose to settle the family in Nazareth, rather than the South based on his own judgment. Josephs conscience was based on the full
respect of Gods Will but with total freedom and full responsibility in carrying it out.
Footnote3: DID JOSEPH THE HOLY MAN EVER INTEND TO DIVORCE MARY? Was Josephs holiness within the standard given by Jesus in Mt 24 or that of the Mosaic laws? God is Love. Only people practicing Gods Will in fulfilling the New Commandment of Love are justified, made holy by God through Jesus shall enter Gods Kingdom. A Vietnamese proverb taught me ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây eating the fruit give thanks to the planter. In deeply appreciating Mary giving birth to Jesus but for me it is very unfair to narrow Josephs role only as a food provider to Jesus. His holiness, his full care and daily work and his share in educating the child, together with Mary brought The Incarnated Word to the human race I am included. It was his perfect gift in fulfilling the Commandment of Love to Jesus, Mary as a husband and father and to all of us. Please be assured there was no quiet divorce procedure in Moses Law. Though a beginner in Greek and Latin, I claim
it should be fair to Matthew to read Mt1:19 as A holy man Joseph her husband was. To grossly and wrongfully humiliate (deigmatisai, traducere ) her and the HOLY CHILD, he did not want. And in his deep heart he desired to withdraw (run away, dismiss, apolusai dimittere) from her and the HOLY CHILD.
Footnote4: WAS JOSEPH BEING RAISED FROM HIS EVENING SLEEP OR RAISED AND ENLIGHTENED FROM DARKNESS? Paul advised us that we fell into our own hupnos (SLEEP but in the figurative sense) in not practicing Gods Will demanded from all of us, the New Commandment of Love: Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this because you know the time; it is the hour now for you hupnou egerthenai to be raised up from sleep because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed (Rom13:10-11 We depend on The Word to be raised up from our hupnos ignorance and the darkness of sins. I prefer the symbolic meaning of egertheis apo tou hupnou exsurgens a somno as being-wholly-raised-up by the Word of God out from the deep darkness and great terror rather than that morning, after the dream, Joseph awoke from his sleep.
Matthew in using the APISSA grammar rule Aorist Participles Indicated a Simultaneous Subsequent Action, purposefully described Josephs 3 actions introduced by KAI-KAI-KAI though in 3 different sets of time but while being in the one continuous state of being enlightened egertheis. Using egertheis in the passive voice, Matthew artistically created a true drama of human total weakness waiting for the Raising Power of The Word of The Lord. Geneva and The King James versions followed the Greek text so they were closer to Kata Matthews original text in translating egertheis- being raised up into English. The Latin did not have the present passive voice participle to enable John Paul and Jerome to follow APISSA. The Latin TAPROTAM rule strictly demanded Tense & Act of Participle Relative Onto Tense &Act of the Main verb.Jerome and John Paul had no choice but to modify the Greek egertheis being raised up (past participle passive voice into the Latin exsurgens raising up
(present participle-active voice) Joseph immediately performed-- but it unavoidably caused me difficulty in understanding it in English, If I simply translate exsurgens as Joseph, raising up (or woke up) from the darkness then good English I am using but Matthew and Jeromes meaning will be lost. Joseph did not raise up by himself. He woke up not. I try to read The Word Of The Lord raised Joseph out from his darkness . It may be the only poor choice to reconcile the conflict between the Greek egertheis (passive voice) and the Latin exsurgens (active voice) using English. I would also like to propose the adverb immediately with the hope that together with the three and one, and two and three, they may bring out the continuity of egertheis-exsurgens as Matthew and Jerome and John Paul so anticipated. Experts opinion is requested
Footnote5: RAST FOR HEOS HOU-AT THE VERY TIME-THEN : Matthew: Jesus commanded the 3 disciples: Tell no one the vision (of the transfiguration event) heos hou until the very day The Son of Man is raised from the dead. Mt 17:9 The unforgiving servant was jailed heos hou until the true time that he pays all his debts. Mt 18:34. See also Mt 13:33, 14:22, 17:9 and 26:36
- Jesus recommended his disciples to continue to stay in the city of Jerusalem heos hou until the very day that they have been given with the power of the Holy Spirit (Lk 24:49)(Also Lk13:21, 15:8, 22:18)
- Amen, Amen I tell you, Peter, not and not the rooster might crow heos hou until the very true time you will then deny me three times (Jn 13:38)
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