[B-Greek] Mt 2:7
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Tue Jan 24 16:53:50 EST 2006
On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Webb wrote:
> So should we translate, "he carefully determined from them how long
> the star
> had been visible"? "The length of time of the appearing star" and
> "The age
> of the appearing star" seem impossibly quaint in English.
As I commented to Rob Redden off-list this morning, "the age of the
star's appearance" is not a translation of TON CRONON TOU FAINOMENOU
ASTEROS but an interpretation of what it means. One needs to read the
whole discussion of the star in ATR's Word-Picures s.v. Mt 2.
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> For good reason, A. T. Robertson wrote,
>
> "The time of the appearing star . . . is not 'the time when the star
> appeared,' but the age of the star's appearance."
>
> Rob Redden
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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