Thread review:
Maurice mentioned the "HOTTP = Hebrew Old Testament Text Project,
which cordially allows both possibilities,
Yigal gave a short voice for the declarative,
George gave the Genesius reference, allowing but not insisting on the interrogatory
Harold gave arguments for the interrogatory, and analyzed detail thereof.
Karl gave a rather unusual suggestion (which I am taking the liberty of considering a bit afield).
Notable basic quote - "There is no grammatical indication that this is a question."
Peter weighed in with Karl's suggestion
Bryan also, with the significant
"leaving the MT as is and wrestling with whether Pro 5:16 is a question or a hope."
One reason I will bypass Karl's suggestion is that I consider the Masoretic vowels as part of the Received Text, not arbitrary or guesswork.
Now let's continue <whew>,
While much as been addressed, originally there were some points that really were not addressed,
Original question posts
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2004-December/021849.html
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2004-December/021851.html
Which I will re-phrase here.
A) Numerous Hebraic commentators, as mentioned by John Gill, see the verse 16 and 18 as
related to children/descendents or disciples. Afaik, these men were not slow to see
sexual themes, yet they saw a different type of parallelism here, with waters being used
in two different way. This seems to be fundamental to making comfortable the interpretation
of the declarative and yet nobody commented on these ideas.
B) Accepting "A" then seems to lead to a very nice parallelism of verses 15 and 16
to 17 and 18, which would eliminate any supposed difficulties in the text.
(Which magnifies the importance of the reasonableness of "A")
Am I the only one who sees or is concerned with such parallelism ?
Thanks to all for your help on this thread and the Isaiah 9:6 one as well,
as the secular calendar year draws to a close.
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Messianic_Apologetic/
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