[B-Greek] 2Cor. 10:1b EN hUMIN ... EIS hUMAS

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Jul 16 07:19:37 EDT 2009


On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

>
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Carl Conrad wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>>
>>> 2Cor. 10:1 Αὐτὸς δὲ ἐγὼ Παῦλος
>>> παρακαλῶ
>>> ὑμᾶς διὰ τῆς πραΰτητος καὶ
>>> ἐπιεικείας τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃς κατὰ
>>> πρόσωπον μὲν ταπεινὸς ἐν ὑμῖν,
>>> ἀπὼν δὲ θαρρῶ εἰς ὑμᾶς·
>>>
>>> 2COR. 10:1 AUTOS DE EGW PAULOS PARAKALW hUMAS DIA THS PRAUTHTOS KAI
>>> EPIEIKEIAS TOU CRISTOU, hOS KATA PROSWPON MEN TAPEINOS EN hUMIN,  
>>> APWN
>>> DE QARRW EIS hUMAS·
>>> The contrast between drawn between the MEN (constituent) and the DE
>>> (constituent) seems to be enhanced by the switch between EN hUMIN  
>>> and
>>> EIS hUMAS. The former EN hUMIN, if it is read as local "among you",
>>> doesn't necessarily imply any sort of action much less aggression, a
>>> passive state and the later EIS hUMAS "towards you" combined with
>>> QARRW implies a goal oriented activity directed toward his  
>>> addressees
>>> in Corinth and seems to carry with it an implication of aggression
>>> directed toward the recipients.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is so obvious it doesn't warrant comment. The older
>>> English versions do a fair job indicating this contrast. M.J. Harris
>>> (2005) has a brief comment on it.
>>
>> Perhaps a bit of self-irony here too? "Meek and mild in your
>> presence, but all ready to do battle with you from a distance."
>>
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
>> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Carl,
>
> I am just getting warmed up on 2Cor but I suspect irony is going to be
> a major issue in chapters 10-13.
>
> With reard to the conrast between TAPEINOS and QARRW, V.Furnish (AB
> 2Cor) cited this passage  Philo "Who is the Heir" 29-30
>
>  ἀπλήστως οὖν εὐωχοῦμαι τοῦ
> κράματος, ὅ με ἀναπέπεικε μήτε ἄνευ
> εὐλαβείας παρρησιάζεσθαι μήτε 3
> ἀπαρρησιάστως εὐλαβεῖσθαι. τὴν γὰρ
> οὐδένειαν τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ μετρεῖν 4
> ἔμαθον καὶ τὰς ἐν ὑπερβολαῖς
> ἀκρότητας τῶν σῶν εὐεργεσιῶν
> περιβλέπεσθαι· καὶ ἐπειδὰν "γῆν  
> καὶ
> τέφραν" καὶ εἴ τι ἐκβλητότερον
> ἐμαυτὸν 6 αἴσθωμαι, τηνικαῦτα
> ἐντυγχάνειν σοι θαρρῶ, ταπεινὸς
> γεγονώς, καταβεβλημένος εἰς χοῦν,
> ὅσα εἴς γε τὸ μηδ’ ὑφεστάναι  
> δοκεῖν
> ἀνεστοιχειωμένος. καὶ τοῦτό μου τὸ
> πάθος τῆς ψυχῆς ἐστηλογράφησεν ἐν
> τῷ 2 ἐμῷ μνημείῳ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος
> Μωυσῆς. "ἐγγίσας" γάρ φησιν "Ἀβραὰμ 3
> εἶπε· νῦν ἠρξάμην λαλῆσαι πρὸς τὸν
> κύριον, ἐγὼ δέ εἰμι γῆ καὶ σποδός" 4
> (Gen. 18, 27), ἐπειδὴ τότε καιρὸς
> ἐντυγχάνειν γένεσιν τῷ πεποιηκότι,
> APLHSTWS OUN EUWCOUMAI TOU KRAMATOS, hO ME ANAPEPEIKE MHTE ANEU
> EULABEIAS PARRHSIAZESQAI MHTE 3 APARRHSIASTWS EULABEISQAI. THN GAR
> OUDENEIAN THN EMAUTOU METREIN 4 EMAQON KAI TAS EN hUPERBOLAIS
> AKROTHTAS TWN SWN EUERGESIWN PERIBLEPESQAI· KAI EPEIDAN "GHN KAI
> TEFRAN" KAI EI TI EKBLHTOTERON EMAUTON 6 AISQWMAI, THNIKAUTA
> ENTUGCANEIN SOI QARRW, TAPEINOS GEGONWS, KATABEBLHMENOS EIS COUN, hOSA
> EIS GE TO MHD' hUFESTANAI DOKEIN ANESTOICEIWMENOS. KAI TOUTO MOU TO
> PAQOS THS YUCHS ESTHLOGRAFHSEN EN TWi 2 EMWi MNHMEIWi hO EPISKOPOS
> MWUSHS. "EGGISAS" GAR FHSIN "ABRAAM 3 EIPE· NUN HRXAMHN LALHSAI PROS
> TON KURION, EGW DE EIMI GH KAI SPODOS" 4 (GEN. 18, 27), EPEIDH TOTE
> KAIROS ENTUGCANEIN GENESIN TWi PEPOIHKOTI,
>
> Furnish suggests that TAPEINOS can mean something like "nothingness"
> which sounds a little bit mid 20th century to my ears. The Philo
> (above) may illustrate this but I am having some difficulty reading
> it. Anyway, this doesn't address the question I raised about   EN
> hUMIN and EIS hUMAS but I thought someone might find the citation
> interesting.

Well, "nothingness sounds more or less contemporaneous with Paul, if  
Philo can say, THN GAR OUDENEIAN THN EMAUTOU METREIN EMAQON and  
Sophocles five centuries earlier has Ajax bitterly sarcasatic  
rhetorical question, hOT' OUKET' EIMI, THNIKAUT' AR' EIM' ANHR? But  
you're thinking of Sartre's L'ʼetre et le néant, I suppose.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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