[gothic-l] 2Cor cap.13 of Wulfila's Bible

[M. Carver]

on 10/27/00 5:16 AM, Vito Evola at vito.evola at libero.it wrote:

> I am doing a study on Wulfila's 2Cor. 13, 1-13, Cod. Amb. A and B.
> 
> I would like to hear any interesting remarks from anyone, and at this
> moment I would like to ask about two particular words in v.2
> 
> anþaramma (=other) adj. sing. mas. Is this the Dative case? If so, why?

The dative is used here as the object of the preposition "andwairþs".
 
> frawaurkjandam (=sin) pres. part., dative plur.; i'm interested in
> Wulfila's meta-translation of the greek word for "sin", seeing as the
> concept of sin (like many other words) were not in the Goth's forma
> mentis. It seems it comes from fra+waurkjan. Fra, it seems to me, is a
> locative prefix and waurkjan means "to work". I could understand if fra
> was a negation, thus "bad work, bad action", but I'm not understanding
> the locative part. Any help here?

fra- is a prefix here not locative in sense perhaps as much as privative or
pejorative. Perhaps it meant "forth" "over" or "away (from)" (indeed it
remains with this meaning in some constructions) but sometimes in Wulfila's
time this prefix simply adds a negative quality to the word, just as the
same prefix in Western Germanic (German ver- and OE for-) does; you might
sometimes translate it as "in the wrong way" or "ill". Thus when put
together with 'waurkjan' we understand "to do wrong". Equally validly you
might see this as "to do away" i.e. to act in a manner away from the
standard > to err, to sin.

Matþaius


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