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A Note on Luke II 49

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Edgar R. Smothers S.J.
Affiliation:
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Extract

Ούκ ᾒδειτε ὃτι έν τοῖς τοῦ Πατρός μου δεῖ εἶναί με;

Several recent translators of the New Testament prefer the rendering, in my Father's house, to the alternative, in the things of my Father, about my Father's business. They have very early precedent for this, in Tatian's Diatessaron and the Syriac versions.

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Research Article
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1952

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References

1 De Trinitate III, xx (PG XXXIX, 895).

2 xix (J. L. Schulze, Theodoreti Opera Omnia V, 1063; Athanasii inter dubia, PG XXVIII, 1324).

3 ii, 16.

4 Adv. Haer. V, xxxvi, 1 (W. W. Harvey, II, 428). John xiv, 2.

5 See R. M. Grant, “Papias and the Gospels,” Anglican Theological Review XXV (1943), 220. This article and one by Wifstrand, mentioned below, were brought to my attention by Professor Nock, to whom I am much indebted.

6 In Lucam, hom. XVIII (Max Rauer, Origenes Werke IX = CB XXXV, 125, 1–5); hom. XX (Rauer, 132, 1–4). Origen makes independent use of the idiom, Adv. Celsum VIII, lvi (P. Koetschau, Origenes Werke II = CB III, 272, 20): ἐν τοῖς τοῦ κτίσαντος ἡμᾶς, in the world of our Creator. On this, see A. Wifstrand, “Die Wahre Lehre des Kelsos,” Bulletin de la Société Royale des Lettres de Lund 1941–1942, p. 430.

7 Heresy LXVI, xlii, 12 (Karl Holl, Epiphanius III = CB XXXVII, 80, 7–8).

8 In Lucam, comment, ad ii, 49 (Angelo Mai, Patrum Nova Bibliotheca II, 138: PG LXXII, 509).

9 Classical Weekly XL (1947), 68–71.

10 This general use is of frequent occurrence in the New Testament. E.g., Philippians ii, 21: Оἱ πάντες γὰρ τὰ έαυτῶν ζητοῦσιν, οὐ τὰ Χριστοῦ Ιησοῦ. See below, note 12.

11 Classical Weekly XLI, 92–94.

12 Due references for τά τινος expressions are found in abundance in the New Testament lexicons. See both Bauer and Zorell, also LSJ, under ὀ, ἡ, τό. Wifstrand, as above, footnote 6, cites excellent material.

13 In Lucam, hom. xx (Rauer, 132, 4–7).

14 Ad Olympiadem, epist. XIII (Ben.2 III, 713 B: PG LII, 610 seq.).

15 Luke ii, 46.