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that the relat. clause is nonessential and can be viewed even as arelat.
connection. The relat. clause is actually a principal sentence: the strong
emphasis upon the contradistinction between what Sion was before and
is now causes the relat. clause to be absolute.
2.4.4.3. Apocrypha
Thackeray 118 finds the pronomen abundans in all parts of the LXX,
where it "undoubtedly owes its frequency to the Hebrew original. But
the fact that it is found in an original Greek work such as 2 Mac .... and
a paraphrase such as 1 Esdras . . . is sufficient to warrant its presence
in the Kotv~".
It is interesting to see whether these examples have the
qualifications of the Greek Koine. Thackeray mentions the following
examples from Esdras I:
3,5 xat ov av q;avfj ro éfjfla a1rrov aoq;áJTeeov rov ÉtÉeov, bwaet avr0
Llaeeioç ...
4,54 l!yeatpev bi xat r~v ... [eeaTlx~v aroA~v, Èv rtVl Aareevovaw Èv avrfj.
The use of rtç instead of the relat. pronoun occurs more of ten in Koinetexts
119.
4,63 ... xat olxoboflfjaal 'leeoVaaA.-YJfl xat ro [ee6v, OV WVOfláafhJ ro ovofla
avrov Èn' avr0 ...
6,32 blà mvm xat ó xvewç, ov ro ovofla avrov È'nlXéxA'YJml Èxei, àq;avtaat
návm {3aatÄÉa ...
In all these examples the relat. clause limits the meaning of the antecedent
and is essential. Unconsciously Thackeray weakened his statement
of the presence of the pronomen abundans in the Greek Koine (which
in itself is perfectly right) by choosing the wrong examples. They all are
genuine cases of Semitic infiuence.
Thackeray mentions still another example: Mac. II 12,27. In the
edition of Rahlfs the pronomen abundans is omitted, but if we follow
the Ms A, the text runs as follows: ... Èneareárevaev xat Ènt Eq;ewv n6ALV
oxveáv, Èv fJ ( xauf>xel) náwpvAa Èv avrfj nA~fh;, veavtal bi éWflaÄÉol neo
u.óv relxéwv xafharwreç evewarwç ànefláxovro ... This time the relat.
clause is nonessential and even the presence of arelat. connection may
be considered. It runs then like this: "... next he marched upon Efron.
It was a strong city, for there were many nations in it and strong-bodied
young men formed the defence . . .".
2.4.4.4. Conclusion
Among the examples of the pronomen abundans in the LXX there are
some which follow the Greek rules. They are Greek in character and
spirit 120. In cases where the Hebrew original has a resumpt. pronoun, the
118 Thackeray, p. 46. See also Mouiton-Howard, p. 435.
119 See Blass-Debrunner, § 298,4 and the literature mentioned there.
120 I must admit that I am not too gure of the Greek spirit of Gen. 10,13-4.
See 2.4.4.2.