[B-Greek] hEWS AN--"While" (Heb. 1:13)?

Anthony Buzzard anthonybuzzard at mindspring.com
Wed May 9 22:17:37 EDT 2007


May I suggest that "waiting until his enemies be made a footstool" 
comments on your question.
The addition of "waiting" clarifies. Heb 10:13. It is quite evident 
from the world as we see it and I think the rest of the NT, that the 
enemies of Jesus are far from subdued. But the promise is that they will be.

Anthony Buzzard



At 08:37 PM 5/9/2007, Webb wrote:
>KAQOU EK DEXIWN MOU hEWS AN QW TOUS ECQROUS SOU UPOPODION TWN PODWN SOU
>
>I was about to render Heb. 1:13 (quoting Ps. Ps. 109:1 LXX [=110:1 English])
>similarly to the way I've seen it in many English translations:
>
>Sit on my right, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.
>
>But then I read Lattimore's rendering, and it got me thinking.
>
>Sit on my right, so that I may make your enemies a footstool for your feet
>
>I started thinking that we don't say "until", but "while", to convey what I
>suspect the statement might be getting at:
>
>Sit on my right, while I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.
>
>Does anyone want to demonstrate that hEWS AN always has to mean "until", in
>the sense that most English speakers would get from it, that carries the
>implication that the "sitting on the right" comes to an end when God's
>making footstools of the enemies comes to an end? BAGD lists the sense
>"while" for hEWS (def. 2: see Mk 14:32; Lk. 17:8), but, apart from those
>instances of hEWS AN that come from this LXX quotation (6/19) and that in
>Mt. 12:20, the NT instances all clearly mean "until".
>
>Webb Mealy
>
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