[B-Greek] Joel 3:1-2 (LXX) & Acts 2:17-18 - Why EKCEW APO TOU PNEUMATOS MOU instead of EKCEW TO PNEUMA MOU?

Eric S. Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sun May 9 21:56:21 EDT 2010


That suggests to me that the LXX translators engaged in a bit of interpretation.

Maybe for something like the "remoteness" reason Mark L. suggested? 

I.e., they wanted to take a bit of a step away from the idea that it would in fact 
be God's Spirit - period - that He would pour out on His people, so they added 
the qualifying "some of"?
 
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Eric S. Weiss 

From: Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com

Conybeare and Stock's little Grammar of LXX Greek,  §92. ἀπό. a. ἀπό  [APO] in the 
LXX is often little more than a sign of the genitive, like our English ‘of,’ provided that 
the genitive be partitive.

That suggests that the LXX translator had the sense in mind, "some of my spirit."
See also BDAG: s.v. APO 1.f as a substitute for the partitive gen. 
... ἐκχεῶ ἀ. τοῦ πνεύματός μου [EKCEW APO TOU PNEUMATOS MOU] Ac 2:17f (Jo 3:1f). 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)


      




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