[B-Greek] 2Cor 3:15-16 hHNIKA ... AN
Brian Abasciano
bvabasciano at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 13:51:49 EST 2010
I actually think it is pretty certain that a causal/conditional relationship
is implied. From my book Paul's Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9.1-9: An
Intertextual and Theological Exegesis (JSNTSup/LNTS, 301; London: T & T
Clark, 2005), 111-12 (see especially the footnote):
3.15-18 speaks of the possibility of Jews (especially, but not exclusively)
turning to the Lord in conversion, as Paul rewrites Exod. 34.34 in
application to the individual Jew with Moses as the type of the one who
turns to the Lord and finds her hardness of heart removed. Significantly,
the hardening is removed when (hHNIKA) a person turns to the Lord (3.16),
that is, as a result of conversion, for it is only removed 'in Christ'
(3.14).[1] Therefore it is not the removal of hardening that leads to
conversion, but conversion that leads to the removal of hardening.
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[1] hHNIKA occurs only in 2 Cor. 3.15-16 in the NT. In the LXX, hHNIKA with
EAN and the subjunctive always presents the associated action as in some way
determinative for a subordinate contingent action (Gen. 20.13 [without
subjunctive]; 24.41; 27.40; Exod. 13.5; Lev. 5.23; Deut. 25.19; 27.3; Josh.
24.20; 24.27; Jdt. 14.2). Moreover, hHNIKA is so used in every one of its
five occurrences in Exodus 32-34 (32.19; 33.8, 22; 34.24, 34), with Exod.
34.34 providing the basis of Paul's use in 2 Cor. 3.16.
Brian Abasciano
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:47:53 -0800
From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
Subject: [B-Greek] 2Cor 3:15-16 hHNIKA ... AN
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2Cor. 3:15 ???? ??? ??????? ????? ?? ????????????? ??????, ??????? ??? ???
??????? ????? ??????? 16 ????? ?? ??? ????????? ???? ??????, ????????????
?? ???????.
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 ... ?
Elizabeth Kline
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