[B-Greek] 2Cor 3:15-16 hHNIKA ... AN

Donald Cobb docobb at orange.fr
Wed Feb 3 02:23:02 EST 2010



Carl Conrad a écrit :
> < 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).>
>
>   
ἡνίκα δὲ ἐὰν ἐπιστρέψῃ πρὸς κύριον, περιαιρεῖται τὸ κάλυμμα. hHNIKA DE 
EAN EPISTREYHi PROS KURION, PERIAIREITAI TO KALUMMA.


V. 16 is generally considered to be a re-worked quote of Ex 34:34, 
though no longer applied to Moses but to New Covenant believers 
generally (note that in NA27 the verse is in italics):

ἡνίκα δ᾽ ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο Μωυσῆς ἔναντι κυρίου λαλεῖν αὐτῷ περιῃρεῖτο τὸ 
κάλυμμα ἕως τοῦ ἐκπορεύεσθαι καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐλάλει πᾶσιν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ 
ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ κύριος. hHNIKA D᾽ AN EISEPOREUETO MWUSHS ENANTI 
KURIOU LALEIN AUTWi PERIHiREITO TO KALUMMA hEWS TOU EKPOREUESQAI KAI 
EXELQWN ELALEI PASIN TOIS hUIOIS ISRAHL hOSA ENETEILATO AUTWi KURIOS.


I think that explains the unusual use of hNIKA.

Donald Cobb
Aix-en-Provence, France





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