[B-Greek] Gen 25.23 and the LXX, in Rom 9.12
P R
prittman at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 13:54:33 EDT 2010
I was thinking more along the lines of Paul's choice of words for "younger,"
(elasswn). Because this wasn't the normal word that would be used to signify
"younger," was this evidence that Paul was deliberately following the LXX
here?
Paul Rittman
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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> BDAG, s.v. MEGAS/μέγας 1.d:
> d. of age (Jos., Ant. 12, 207 μικρὸς ἢ μέγας=‘young or old’); to
> include all concerned μικροὶ καὶ μεγάλοι small and great (PGM 15, 18) Rv
> 11:18; 13:16; 19:5, 18; 20:12. μικρῷ τε καὶ μεγάλῳ Ac 26:22. ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως
> μεγάλου (Gen 19:11; 4 Km 23:2; 2 Ch 34:30; POxy 1350) 8:10; Hb 8:11 (Jer
> 38:34). μέγας γενόμενος when he was grown up 11:24 (Ex 2:11). ὁ μείζων the
> older (O. Wilck II, 144, 3 [128 AD]; 213, 3; 1199, 2; LXX; cp. Polyb. 18,
> 18, 9 Σκιπίων ὁ μέγας; 32, 12, 1) Ro 9:12; B 13:2 (both Gen 25:23).
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> I don't think this is anything distinctly Semtiic. Contemporary Latin, of
> course, uses MAIOR and MINOR for "older" and "younger" -- Polybius in BDAG's
> citation has simply turned the Latin name "Scipio Major" into its Greek
> equivalent. I'm reminded of an elderly friend whose granddaughter was named
> for her; how should the two be distinguished? "Well," she said, "you can
> call me "Big Jane" or "Old Jane," but you don't call me "Big Old Jane."
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> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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