[B-Greek] Third Person Form for Courtly Second Person Address inActs 26:26?
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Thu Dec 13 02:33:53 EST 2007
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From: "Webb Mealy" <webb at selftest.net>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Third Person Form for Courtly Second Person Address inActs 26:26?
> EPISTATAI GAR PERI TOUTWN hO BASILEUS, PROS hON KAI PARRHSIAZOMENOS LALW-OU
> GAR ESTIN EN GWNIAi PEPRAGMENON TOUTO (Acts 26:26)
>
> 26 And the king knows about these things, so I'm speaking openly to him.
> After all, I'm convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, since it
> didn't happen in a corner. (SENT draft)
>
> I had taken v. 26 as a continuation of Paul's retort to Festus, who is not a
> Jew. I thought Paul was addressing Festus and asserting that Festus didn't
> understand enough about internal Jewish affairs to get the weight of what
> Paul was saying. I then thought Paul in v. 27 turned to Agrippa for support
> in his contention that his discourse made sense in a Jewish context. But
> some translations understand Paul as addressing Agrippa, the quasi-Jewish
> king, starting right in v. 26, so that "The king knows about these things"
> equals "You, O King, know about these things", and so on.
Is there any translation apart from TEV which assumes that Paul adresses Agrippa in v. 26? This is
apparently a mistake in TEV which was corrected in the CEV. Since CEV was done after the TEV, it has
corrected a number of the mistakes in the TEV. It may also have been corrected in later versions of
TEV, I can't check now.
The GARs in the Greek and the vocatives are sufficient to indicate that not until v. 27 does Paul
address Agrippa, even though he would have heard everything being said.
Iver Larsen
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