[B-Greek] Is 50:1 in Septuagint
Clayton Javurek
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Wed Oct 18 10:55:39 EDT 2006
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Is 50:1 in Septuagint
On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:03 AM, reznik1 at juno.com wrote:
>
> I thank everybody who answered my question.
> -- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> I realized that it would not be a direct quotation, and that the
> original meaning of the LXX text is as what you said. I just
> suspect that Paul might play with the meaning in rabbinical manner
> as he did in other places, because formally, outside of the
> context, TAIS hAMARTIAIS might be translated as "to sin".
You might conceivably have something like DOULEUW THi hAMARTIAi,
where the dative (true dative this time, rather than instrumental),
but note that here hAMARTIA is singular and personified as a DESPOTHS
to whom the speaker/author is a DOULOS. And Paul does indeed speak of
hAMARTIA rhetorically as personfied in what immediately follows in
Rom 7:17 NUNI DE OUKETI EGW KATERGAZOMAI AUTO ALLA hH SUNOIKOUSA EN
EMOI hAMARTIA. So also in Rom 8 at the beginning he speaks of
hAMARTIA in the singular as a personified and subject to the judicial
action of God. See BDAG, esp. 3a.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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