[B-Greek] 2Cor 3:15-16 hHNIKA ... AN
Bryant J. Williams III
bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Wed Feb 3 01:50:15 EST 2010
Carl, Elizabeth,
Temporal clauses used to express condition: That would make an interesting
study. I suspect that it occurs frequently in KOINH Greek. We do it quite
commonly in English, as, for example, when I address a student as follows: "When
you start studying diligently, you'll start receiving the grades you desire."
Essentially this is the same as saying, "If you start studying diligently,
you'll start receiving the grades you desire." It seems that I've seen something
to this effect either in BDF or BDAG.
BDF, paragraph 455, #1 gives hHNIKA the following:
"Temporal conjunctions. (1) Those denoting 'when' are hOTE, hOTAN and less
frequently EPAN. Paul uses hHNIKA as an exception in 2 Cor 3:15f (1 Clem 57.4
OT), which strictly refers to an hour or season of the year, but already in
Attic is used interchangeably with hOTE."
Under examples of (1) on page 238 he states also:
"hHNIKA is literary, but also LXX (e.g. Ex 1.10, Dt 7.12); 2 Cor 3:16 from
Ex 34:34 and accordingly 3:15."
En Xristwi,
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: "Elizabeth Kline" <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
Cc: "greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] 2Cor 3:15-16 hHNIKA ... AN
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> >
> > 2Cor. 3:15 ἀλλ᾿ ἕως σήμερον ἡνίκα ἂν ἀναγινώσκηται Μωϋσῆς, κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τὴν
καρδίαν αὐτῶν κεῖται· 16 ἡνίκα δὲ ἐὰν ἐπιστρέψῃ πρὸς κύριον, περιαιρεῖται τὸ
κάλυμμα.
> >
> > 2Cor. 3:15 ALL᾿ hEWS SHMERON hHNIKA AN ANAGINWSKHTAI MWU+SHS, KALUMMA EPI
THN KARDIAN AUTWN KEITAI· 16 hHNIKA DE EAN EPISTREYHi PROS KURION, PERIAIREITAI
TO KALUMMA.
> >
> > In regard to the semantic significance of hHNIKA DE EAN in verse 16, is it
safe to say that a temporal relationship between EPISTREYHi PROS KURION and
PERIAIREITAI TO KALUMMA exhausts Paul's intended meaning here? In other words,
there is nothing implied in this statement about a causal and/or conditional
relationship between EPISTREYHi ... and PERIAIREITAI ... ?
>
> Temporal but generalizing; but I think I'd have to say that it is implicitly
> conditional, that "whenever" = "if at any time."
> It's curious to me that hHNIKA appears only 2x in the GNT and in these
> two verses, while hOTAN appears 23x in the Pauline corpus. On the other
> hand, hHNIKA is fairly common in the LXX (102x).
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>
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