[B-Greek] Is 50:1 in Septuagint

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 18 09:27:09 EDT 2006


Here is Moises Silva's translation for NETS:
50.1           Thus says the Lord:

                      Of what kind was your mother’s bill of divorce

                                 with which I sent her away?

                      Or to which creditor

                                 have I sold you?

                      Look, for your sins you were sold,

                                 and for your acts of lawlessness I 
sent away your mother.

On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:20 AM, reznik1 at juno.com wrote:
>
>> Dear friends,
>> Could you please help me with translation of TAIS hAMARTIAIS in Is
>> 50:1? Can it be translated as "to sins"? I am asking because I am
>> trying to figure out if Paul might have in mind the Septuagint
>> version of the text when he was writing Rom 7:14, "We know that the
>> law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin." I
>> realize though, that it is not a direct quotation.
>
> No, I think it's instrumental, "by reason of your sins."
> Text: IDOU TAIS hAMARTIAIS hUMWN EPRAQHTE KAI TAIS ANOMIAIS hUMWN
> EXAPESTEILA THN MHTERA hUMWN.
>
> Note the parallel clauses, involving, I think, in this case, parallel
> usage of emphatic fronted dative plurals, the sense being "for/
> because of/by reason of."
>
> While Rom 7:14 has the same notion of selling into slavery, note that
> here we have THN hAMARTIAN as accusative object of the preposition 
> hUPO:
> Rom 7:14 OIDAMEN GAR hOTI hO NOMOS PNEUMATIKOS ESTIN, EGW DE SARKINOS
> EIMI PEPRAMENOS hUPO THN hAMARTIAN.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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