[B-Greek] Habbakuk 2:4b - objective genitive?

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 18 12:20:21 EST 2009


But must the interpretation of MOU in Hab 2:4b be either/or? Might it  
be both/and? Just what text are we talking about, the text as produced  
or configured OR the text as received or refigured?
As for the text as configured, I see no good reason to read it as  
anything but a possessive genitive. Though the context is difficult,  
4b seems to say that amidst the coming woes the just person need not  
worry because God's faithfulness will sustain him.
As for the text as refigured, it would seem quite possible to construe  
MOU as an objective genitive, the more perhaps because the context is  
not as clear as it might be. In that case 4b is read as "the just will  
live because he has faith in God. Whether there is evidence in the NT  
that Hab 2:4b was so refigured is, of course, another matter.
Al


On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Eric S. Weiss wrote:

> George:
>
> I know the textual problem vis-a-vis the Hebrew that the LXX  
> displays (i.e., "his" versus
> "my").
>
> But my question is not whether or not the LXX got the Hebrew right,  
> but how the LXX of
> Habakkuk 2:4b can be understood or read or used by the reader or by  
> an expositor like
> Paul.
>
> My question - which arose from an attempt to translate/explicate  
> this section of Romans 1
> and its relationship to Paul's teachings on PISTIS and DIKAIOSUNH -  
> is whether or not
> MOU in the LXX of Hab 2:4b can be understood or translated as an  
> objective genitive. If so,
> I think this potentially nuances Paul's use of the phrase in Romans  
> 1:17 and elsewhere,
> and tangentially could be a factor in the PISTIS CRISTOU discussion,  
> IMO.
>
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> Eric S. Weiss
>
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