Re: Deut 6

From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Thu Jan 25 1996 - 17:20:46 EST


> I have a question or two from Dt. in the LXX. 6:11 says that the
>Israelites
>will get things they did not work for. The verbs for them not working forthem
>are generally Aorist, but the passage has a forward perspective "You didn't
>dig the cistern, but you get to have it". This is followed by
>KAI FAGWN KAI EMPLHSQEIS. These are Aorist participles, but they refer, I
>think,
>to a future event, i.e., when you get the houses and vineyards and cisterns
>and so forth, you will eat and be filled full. Howevver, that's not how I
>learned to trasnlate participles. It would be more like "after having
>both eaten
>and having been filled full". Is it common to understand Aorist participles as
>future in reference?

Ken, two things. Time in participles is relative to the main verb and even
then there are many exceptions. The two participles FAGWN KAI EMPLHSQEIS
go with the command that follows, "When you have eaten and are filled, take
heed for yourself that you do not forget the Lord your God."

> I also have a question about 6:15: MH ORGISQEIS QUMWQHi.
>It seems necessary to take MH as hINA MH "in order that not", but I've never
>run across MH with an implicit hINA in it. Also what about the translation?
>"having become angry He may become angry at you?"?

Look back up to vs. 12 "lest you forget . . ." The subjunctive mood
carries a sense of oughtness even without the hINA.
>
> I noticed, BTW, that some words seemed to be "defined" by LSJM with the
>KJV equivalent, like "round about"? Are they glossing a lot for the LXX or
>really tgrying to give a "definition"?
>
I'm not sure what you are asking here.

Carlton Winbery
Chair Religion/Philosophy
LA College,
Pineville,La
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