Σαββάτου ἔχον ὁδόν
a sabbath day's journey
Translated by Alex Gottesman13 Nov 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σαββάτου ἔχον ὁδόν· δισχιλίων πήχεων ἦν· τοσοῦτον γὰρ ἡ κιβωτὸς διάστημα προελάμβανε τὴν παρεμβολήν, καὶ ἀπὸ τοσούτου διαστήματος ἐκίνουν, οἷς ἐξῆν προσκυνεῖν τὴν σκηνὴν ἐν σαββάτῳ βαδίζειν.
Betacode
*sabba/tou e)/xon o(do/n: disxili/wn ph/xewn h)=n: tosou=ton ga\r h( kibwto\s dia/sthma proela/mbane th\n parembolh/n, kai\ a)po\ tosou/tou diasth/matos e)ki/noun, oi(=s e)ch=n proskunei=n th\n skhnh\n e)n sabba/tw| badi/zein.
Notes (3)
- Acts 1:12 (on the distance between the Mount of Olives and Jerusalem), with comment thereon; cf. Oecumenius, PG 118, 53d.
- 1For the cubit ("distance from the point of the elbow to that of the middle finger": LSJ), approx. 18 inches, see pi 1543. ↩
- 2On the ark of the covenant, see the Catholic Encyclopedia at web address 1. ↩
- 3In the Mishnah (M Sotah 5:3, ca 200 CE), Rabbi Akiva compares Numbers 35:5 "you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits ..." with Numbers 35:4 "one thousand cubits round about" to derive that the boundary that limits how far one may walk outside a city on the Sabbath is two thousand cubits. This distance then becomes the rule promulgated by such Jewish codifiers as Maimonides (~1135–1204) and Joseph ben Ephraim Karo (1488–1575). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 newadvent.org
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- coding — David Whitehead
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- added a note — Catharine Roth
- tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword, translation, note, keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Alex Gottesman