[B-Greek] Habbakuk 2:4b - objective genitive?
George F Somsel
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Fri Dec 18 10:09:50 EST 2009
I seriously doubt that. I suspect that what we have is a case of the Greek translator using a slightly corrupted text at this point. The Hebrew here has בֶּאֱמוּנָתוֹ which contains the preposition "in" (or "according to" or "because of") plus the noun meaning "steadfastness", "trustworthiness" or "honesty" which then has the pronominal suffix וֹ which is 3rd m sg. It is therefore distinctly a problem of the Greek version. It may have originated from a mistaken reading of the waw in the unpointed text as a yod (very close in appearance) which would have made it a 1st sg possessive pron.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Eric S. Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Habbakuk 2:4b - objective genitive?
AMBAKOUM 2:4b: hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS MOU ZHSETAI
Both Brenton and NETS translate this as: "but the just shall live by my faith" (NETS notes
"Or faithfulness").
Is it possible for MOU to not be a possessive genitive, but an objective genitive - i.e., "but
the just [man/person] shall live by/because-of his faith in Me"?
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Eric S. Weiss
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