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Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 10:03 am
by Mike Baber
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On the footnote 2, it refers to a source "St. Anastas. Hexaem. Lib. VII."

I'm assuming this is a St. Anastasia, but I don't know what the source is (Hexaem?). Can anyone help me?

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 10:43 am
by Stephen Carlson
Mike Baber wrote:On the footnote 2, it refers to a source "St. Anastas. Hexaem. Lib. VII."

I'm assuming this is a St. Anastasia, but I don't know what the source is (Hexaem?). Can anyone help me?
Actually, it's St. Anastasius of Sinai of the 7th and 8th centuries. The work is called Hexaemeron, referring to the six days of creation.

Stephen

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 11:00 am
by Ken M. Penner
Mike Baber wrote:Image

On the footnote 2, it refers to a source "St. Anastas. Hexaem. Lib. VII."

I'm assuming this is a St. Anastasia, but I don't know what the source is (Hexaem?). Can anyone help me?
It's in Migne's PG 89.

See http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/1 ... ,_MGR.html

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 11:22 am
by Mike Baber
Anastasius Sinaita...sounds like an interesting man.

Well, I can't find an English translation. Seems like there are a few projects in the process of translating his Hexaemeron. Edit: I'm going to try to translate that Greek and then post it here for critique.

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 12:35 pm
by Mike Baber
lol...don't laugh at my translation.

For what reason the others who interpret those things about the wonderful Symmachos they surrendered/ gave out/ gave up the saying/ voice/ discourse. For, instead of the saying, "I have acquired a man by the Lord," he says, "I have acquired a man with the Lord," that is, "man being a ruler with the Lord," God being of both him and a man. But, the other, "I have acquired a man, the Lord," he wrote so that it was said, "A man, the Lord," accordingly, Thomas also said to him, "My Lord and my God."

I know it's quite bad, so any help would be appreciated. I had to guess at many things.

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 12:44 pm
by cwconrad
Mike Baber wrote:lol...don't laugh at my translation.

For what reason the others who interpret those things about the wonderful Symmachos they surrendered/ gave out/ gave up the saying/ voice/ discourse. For, instead of the saying, "I have acquired a man by the Lord," he says, "I have acquired a man with the Lord," that is, "man being a ruler with the Lord," God being of both him and a man. But, the other, "I have acquired a man, the Lord," he wrote so that it was said, "A man, the Lord," accordingly, Thomas also said to him, "My Lord and my God."

I know it's quite bad, so any help would be appreciated. I had to guess at many things.
Here, for what it's worth, is what I make of it:

"Consequently different interpreters in the circle of Symmachus have edited an expression of this sort in an astonishing fashion. Instead of saying, “ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον διὰ τοῦ κυρίου”, one (of them) says (lit. ‘has said’), “ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον σὺν κυρίῳ, i.e., a human being united to the Lord, one who is at the same time a god and a human being, while the other of the two interpreters in turn writes (‘has written’), “ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον κύριον”, so that you might say a man-god, just as Thomas said to him, “ὁ κύριος … " (cf. John 20:28 ἀπεκρίθη Θωμᾶς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ὁ κύριός μου καὶ ὁ θεός μου.)

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 1:32 pm
by Mike Baber
What is ἡγωμένον? Is it a present middle participle of ἡγέομαι? I looked up ἡγέομαι in LSJ (via Perseus), but I didn't find it used in the sense of "unite." Can you elaborate Carl?

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 1:40 pm
by Ken M. Penner
Mike Baber wrote:What is ἡγωμένον? Is it a present middle participle of ἡγέομαι? I looked up ἡγέομαι in LSJ (via Perseus), but I didn't find it used in the sense of "unite." Can you elaborate Carl?
From ἑνόω.

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 2:04 pm
by cwconrad
It's not ἡγωγμένην with a gamma, but rather ἡνωμένην with a nu; as Ken rightly notes, it is from ἑνόω, "unify" or "make one."

Re: Field's Notes on Hexapla for Genesis 4:1

Posted: June 20th, 2011, 2:17 pm
by Mike Baber
Aw :D Makes a LOT more sense. :lol: