From: 33brindle (33brindle@cua.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 04 1999 - 19:23:50 EST
James,
[about Rev 14:11, EIS AIWNAS AIWNWN]
>I wonder if this is another one of John's "solecisms" where he is carrying
>over the exact grammatical forms to signal OT allusions. Beale's The Book of
>Revelation (NIGTC) argues that many Daniel allusions in Revelation are
>intentional and that Daniel is a framework for the entire book. If the
>anarthrous form in a similar sense is also found in Daniel and Psalms that
>may explain John's use of it here.
I don't think EIS AIWNAS AIWNWN is really a solecism since the phrase is not
grammatically incongruent. We wouldn't find the construction here peculiar at
all if all the other occurrences of the construction in the NT (and LXX for
the most part) weren't articular.
I would also be hesitant to say that the phrase in Daniel is motivating the
anarthrous construction in Rev 14:11 since it appears in the (non-apocalyptic)
story of Susanna, which doesn't seem to have been very influential on John's
Apocalypse. Perhaps the Psalms references (7 times in 5 psalms) were
influential, but they're all in the singular. Why would John change to the
plural? Of course, there's a lot of grammatical mystery in Revelation, so we
can't exactly call on the testimony of a consistently correct syntax.
Whatever the reason for John's phrase, I don't think it's different in meaning
from its articular counterpart. But it is nonetheless very interesting.
Robert
Robert Brindle
Ph.D. Student, Biblical Studies
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.
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