Ῥάμνος

thorn-bush

Translated by Catharine Roth28 Jan 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

[Meaning a] very big acanthus-like plant.¹ Scripture calls every [kind of] sin an acanthus.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥάμνος· ἀκανθῶδες φυτὸν μέγιστον. πᾶσαν δὲ ἁμαρτίαν ἄκανθαν καλεῖ ἡ Γραφή.

Betacode

*(ra/mnos: a)kanqw=des futo\n me/giston. pa=san de\ a(marti/an a)/kanqan kalei= h( *grafh/.

1Similarly glossed in other lexica. According to LSJ s.v., r(a/mnos can refer to several different thorny plants. ↩
2cf. Theodoret (PG 80.1301a) on Psalm 57.10 LXX. ↩

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