[B-Greek] SUGKEKERASMENOUS in Hebrews 4:2
Vasile Stancu
stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Sun Aug 31 10:04:33 EDT 2008
It is a little bit hard for me to grasp the idea that the result of appropriately receiving the good news would be to "join in faith with those who had heeded the proclamation", especially because the possibility is there to interpret the τοῖς ἀκούσασιν TOIS AKOUSASIN as qualifying ἐκείνους EKEINOUS - setting a limitation on it - in a sense like, "... did not profit those, i.e. those who heard...", as if the Greek text would read:
... ἀλλ’ οὐκ ὠφέλησεν ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀκοῆς ἐκείνους, [i.e., τοῖς ἀκούσασιν], τῇ πίστει μὴ συγκεκερασμένους [i.e., again,] τοῖς ἀκούσασιν.
ALL' OUK WFELHSEN O LOGOS THS AKOHS EKEINOUS [i.e., TOIS AKOUSASIN] THi PISTEI MH SUGKEKRASMENOUS [i.e., again] TOIS AKOUSASIN
Vasile STANCU
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To: Leonard Jayawardena
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] SUGKEKERASMENOUS in Hebrews 4:2
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Leonard Jayawardena wrote:
>
> Hebrews 4:2--KAI GAR ESMEN EUHGGELISMENOI KAQAPER KAKEINOI, ALL' OUK
> WFELHSAN hO LOGOS THS AKOHS EKEINOUS MH SUGKEKERASMENOUS THi PISTEI
> TOIS AKOUSASIN.
>
> Why is SUGKEKERASMENOUS in the accusative and why is it plural,
> since it is to be understood with hO LOGOS THS AKOHS?
> SUGKEKERASMENOS, which is what, I think, would be grammatically
> correct, is found in some manuscripts, but the editors of the
> critical text of Nestle Aland and UBS appparently thought
> SUGKEKERASMENOUS most probably stood in the original text. Is the
> form of the word due its proximity to EKEINOUS? and Is it a
> "solecism"?
I'm not going to reproduce it here, but a a couple earlier efforts I
made to elucidate the problems of this text are set forth in a message
which I addressed to the list on September 24, 2003 8:37:36 AM EDT
under the subject header, "Re: [B-Greek] Two datives in Heb. 4:2." In
the archives at:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2003-September/026418.html
= http://tinyurl.com/6ck7yw
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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