2006/4/7, Harold R. Holmyard III <hholmyard AT ont.com>:
HH: I ran across an interesting phrase in Luke 1:51, which makes one
wonder what the Hebrew or Aramaic original was. Mary says that God
scattered "ones proud in the mind of their hearts." The word "mind"
is DIANOIA, which can also mean intention, purpose, thought,
attitude, or understanding, according to the dictionary that comes
with the UBS text. It is translated "imagination" by the KJV. So it
could have been a word like maHshavot ('thoughts'), as you have it
above.
Why would there be a "Hebrew or Aramaic original"? No evidence for the
suggestion that Luke was not an original Greek composition exists. I
agree it is a very "Jewish" text, but Jewishness and language don't
always have anything to do with each other. Luke's hebraistic style
may just as well be inspired by the LXX.
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