[B-Greek] How Novatian understood the Greek of Phil 2:6
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Tue Mar 21 10:19:08 EST 2006
In my opinion Jerome and Novatian are very close, interpreting the
Greek relative clause of their underlying Greek text, which was
apparently the same at this point, with present participle hOS ...
hUPARCWN in two of the several ways it may be translated.
qui cum ... may be temporal, "who, when ..." (it may, however, be
concessive/adversative, as Novatian more clearly reads it)
"although" (quamvis). Novatian reads the relative pronoun as simple
third person pronoun and add ERGO to link the quotation and his
following discussion with what he sad previously.
Origen makes abundant use of Phil 2 and weaves in comments on Phil
2:6 in many places. His near contemporary, "Hippolytus," both the
writer of Refutatio and Contra Noetum, (I think the writer of the
commentaries and the writer of Ref. are different authors who were,
however, part of the same "school") have several citations and
interesting interpretations of Phil 2:6. I found multiple references
in Hippolytus in Biblia Patristica, vol. 2, Letroisième siècle
(Origène excepté) (Paris: Éditions du centre national de la recherch
scientifique, 1977), 413-15. A few other references should be added
to those in the Biblica Patristica, for example, in the quotation of
the "Gnostic" Naasene Hymn is an important allusion to Phil 2:7, Ref.
5.10.2.3-4.
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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