[B-Greek] Joel 3:1-2 (LXX) & Acts 2:17-18 - Why EKCEW APO TOU PNEUMATOS MOU instead of EKCEW TO PNEUMA MOU?
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sun May 9 20:20:51 EDT 2010
This is a good question Eric. I had noticed it before and
wondered about it.
One thought is that the LXX translators have a tendency to
preserve the transcendence of God a bit more, to make Him
a little more remote and less anthropomorphic, perhaps in
accordance with Platonic philosophy. Shedding out a little
something from of his Spirit, may have struck the translators as more
worthy of God than pouring out his whole Spirit.
Mark L
FWSFOROS MARKOS
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From: Eric S. Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Joel 3:1-2 (LXX) & Acts 2:17-18 - Why EKCEW APO TOU PNEUMATOS MOU instead of EKCEW TO PNEUMA MOU?
The Hebrew text of Joel 2:28-29 (Joel 3:1-2 LXX) seems to read:
"I will pour out My Spirit"
However, the LXX translation renders it:
"I will pour out from (APO) My Spirit"
and Acts 2:17-18 keeps the LXX reading.
So whereas the Hebrew text has God pouring out His Spirit,
and not merely [something] "from" His Spirit, the LXX addition
of APO seems to diminish the meaning/effect of the Hebrew.
Other places in Acts indicate that people received the Spirit,
and not simply [something] "from" the Spirit.
So why does the LXX add APO here? I did some searching of
EKCEW plus APO in the LXX and Philo and Josephus and
the Apostolic Fathers, but couldn't find a reason for the LXX
addition of APO to EKCEW in Joel 3:1-2.
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Eric S. Weiss
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