[B-Greek] Didache 4:10 TO PNEUMA (Robert Schut)
Bart Ehrman
behrman at email.unc.edu
Thu May 31 16:35:08 EDT 2007
Not only that, but check out the more recent Loeb edition. :-)
-- Bart Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman
James A. Gray Professor
Department of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Didache 4:10 TO PNEUMA (Robert Schut)
Bob Schut wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I am having a little trouble understanding verse 4:10 of the Didache. The
translation that I have was translated by Maxwell Stanforth for "Early
Christian Writings", Penguin Books. My difficulty is with this part of the
verse:
>
> OU GAR ERCETAI KATA PROSWPON KALESAI, ALL' EF' hOUS TO PNEUMA hNTOIMASEN.
>
> The book translates this as:
> "(He has not come to call men according to their rank) but those for whom
he has prepared the Spirit.
>
> It seems better translated as:
>
> "(He has not come to call men according to their rank) but for those whom
the Spirit prepared."
>
> The question is why the translator chose "He" (referring to God) as a
pronoun for the subject, when he could have chosen "the Spirit?" Since TO
PNEUMA is neuter it can be either nominative or accussative depending upon
the context. Can someone let me know if this is grammatically correct or if
there are circumstances that I am not seeing?
>
>
HH: I can't say why the translator chose as he did, but you are not
alone in your view. I have the Loeb Classical Library edition of
Didache, and the translator, Kirsopp lake, took the verse as follows:
Thou shalt not command in thy bitterness thy slave or thine handmaid,
who hope in the same God, lest they cease to fear the God who is over
you both; for he comes not to call men with respect of persons, but
those whom the Spirit has prepared.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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