[B-Greek] Luke 2:27 EQIZW
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Apr 27 17:06:03 EDT 2008
On Apr 27, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Tom Moore wrote:
> Luke 2:27
> Καὶ [Συμεών] ἦλθεν ἐν τῷ πνεύματι
> εἰς τὸ ἱερόν· καὶ ἐν τῷ
> εἰσαγαγεῖν τοὺς γονεῖς τὸ παιδίον
> Ἰησοῦν, τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτοὺς κατὰ
> τὸ εἰθισμένον τοῦ νόμου περὶ
> αὐτοῦ,
> KAI [SUMEWN] HLQEN EN TWi PNEUMATI EIS TO hIERON: KAI EN TWi
> EISAGAGEIN TOUS GONEIS TO PAIDION IHSOUN, TOU POIHSAI AUTOUS KATA TO
> EIQISMENON TOU NOMON PERI AUTOU,
>
> The phrase:
> κατὰ τὸ εἰθισμένον τοῦ νόμου
> KATA TO EIQISMENON TOU NOMOU
>
> Is this "the thing which has been EQIZW'd by the law"? Or "the part
> of the law which has been EQIZW'd"?
Howzabout a third possibility: "the ethized thing of the law," i.e.
the thing-made-customary of the law"?
>
>
> Second, is this a judgment call, or is there a one way to say it to
> mean one thing, and another way to mean the other?
You have to first determine what TO EIQISMENON means ("the thing that
has been customarily done") and then attach TOU NOMOU to it: it
becomes "the thing of law that has been customarily done."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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