Acts 26:9

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Something else that I wonder about is whether 'wiþro' would be
> > used as
> > > a complement of 'andaneiþo'.  As far as I can see, all the
> > examples of
> > >   'andaneiþo' and 'andaneiþs' (II Cor 2:7, Col 2:14, I Thess 
2:15)
> > > simply take a dative complement with no preposition.  That's 
not to
> > > say that 'wiþro' is wrong here -- just something to think 
about.
> >
> > Doesn't wiþra belong rather to gataujan than to andaneiþo here?
> > Rather "to do [many contrary things] against the name of Jesus of
> > Nazareth"? Vulgate  - aduersus nomen ... [multa contraria] agere 
and
> > LXX - PROS TO ONOMA ... [POLLA ENANTIA] PRAXAI.
> 
> In English, at least, the following sentence would be 
incomplete: "I
> thought that I should do many things { contrary, opposed } ..."  We
> would want to know "{ contrary, opposed } to what?"  If you put
> 'contrary' before the noun it modifies, then the sentence could be
> complete; it would mean that the things done were just contrary in
> general, arbitrarily awkward/difficult/provocative or calculated to
> make trouble.

That's what I think is the case here.

> Unfortunately we don't have much information about
> Gothic to go on, so we can't tell what would sound odd or 
incomplete.
>   How about Greek and Latin?  Is 'adversus' necessary 
with 'contraria',
> PROS with ENANTIA?

Not necessary, I think. At least neither has the preposition in 
other fragments of the Bible (afaik). Same with Gothic andaneiþa.

> Here is an Icelandic translation for comparison:
> 'Sjálfur taldi ég mér skylt að vinna af öllu megni gegn nafni Jesú 
frá
> Nasaret.'  Lit. "...to work with all my strength against..."  I'm 
not
> sure if there are any Old English or Old High German versions of 
this
> verse extant.

Cf. Modern German: ich meinte freilich bei mir selbst gegen den 
Namen ... viel Feindseliges tun zu müssen.

Ualarauans

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