[b-greek] Re: Acts 13:32-33 the Prophet

From: Alex / Ali (alexali@surf.net.au)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 08:35:15 EST


[Acts 13:32-33]

>KAI hUMEIS hUMAS EUAGGELIZOMEQA THN PROS TOUS PATERAS EPAGGELIAN GENOMENHN
>hOTI TAUTHN hO QEOS EKPEPLHRWKEN TOIS TEKNOIS AUTWN
>hHMIN ANASTHSAS IHSOUN

Iver, the hUMEIS should be hHMEIS.

>and WE announce to YOU (concerning) the promise which came to the/our
fathers
>that this (promise) God has (now) fulfilled for their children (you and me)
(by)
>having raised up Jesus for us
>
>The difficult phrase is hHMIN ANASTHSAS, and which other words hHMIN
>connects with.
>First, does "raise up" refer to raising from the dead or raising up in the
>sense of sending forth?
>It is interesting that we find the same phrase in all three major speeches
>to a Jewish audience in Acts.

[snip]

>Any thoughts?

Just one quick thought (it's midnight here, have just come home after a late
night, and can't give this more time now), but why not take hHMIN as in
apposition to TOIS TEKNOIS, rather than closely with ANASTHSAS? This was
the way I construed before reading on in your message to look at the
interesting parallel passages you cite, and I acknowledge I haven't weighed
their full significance for this text. (I do note that NIV, at least, takes
hHMIN as being in apposition.) The hOTI DE ANESTHSEN AUTON EK NEKRWN KTL of
v34 suggests to me on first reading that here it is raising from the dead
that is in mind (and verse 35, too, does nothing to contradict this
understanding of the text), rather than the 'sending forth' sense seen
elsewhere; but I don't offer hOTI KTL as being conclusive, since the
citation of Psalm 2:7 in 33b, hUIOS MOU EI SU, EGW SHMERON GEGENNHKA SE,
could be taken as in parallel to the 'send forth' sense. How are you taking
that clause? Regards,

Alex Hopkins
Melbourne, Australia


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