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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Desire of Women" in Heb. Text of Dan. 11:37
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:50:09 -0600

Steve Miller wrote:
Re. Hag 2:7. I believe it should be translated "the desire of all thenations shall come", not "the desirable things of the nations shall come"because "desire" is singular. The verb "come" is plural, which I thinkindicates that the desire of all the nations is actually God Himself.

HH: This seems like an ad hoc explanation of the grammatical phenomenon. J. Alec Motyer ( _Haggai_ in _The Minor Prophets_, ed. Thomas Edward McComisky, 3:991) finds the plural verb a real hindrance to the Messianic interpretation since the verb requires a plural subject. He thinks we could say with GKC #145b, d that the plural verb points to "chemdath" being taken as a collective: "treasures." Or he thinks with GKC #124r we can suppose that, since "chemdath" is in construction with "goyim," the whole phrase can be taken as a plural. He does not feel that it is necessary to emend the first noun "chemdath" to a plural as BHS suggests. Both of his suggestions are well-attested grammatical phenomena and give better solutions to Hag 2:7 than the one offered by Steve.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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