Fwd: Re: [tied] Re: Tychicus (St. Fortunato)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> >
> > --- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> > > Migne's footnote, which George dug up,
> > appears
> > > to assume that
> > > this is a Hebrew interpretation, simply because
> > > Jerome did write a
> > > book LIBER DE NOMINIBUS HAEBRAICIS, based on
> > (lost)
> > > works by Origen
> > > and Philo. From what I gather from the Web
> > without
> > > going to a
> > > theological library, "Tychicus " is not one of the
> > > names considered
> > > in this book,
> >
> > GK: As a matter of fact it is. Have a look at
> > vol. 23 of the Patrologia Latina at cols. 1247,
> > 1249,
> > and 1251.
>
> ******GK: Actually the above refer to a text based on
> manuscripts of Jerome's putative source. In his own
> work, "Tychicus" appears in the list of Hebrew names
> in the Epistle to the Colossians (cf. PL, vol. 23,
> col. 855). If you read the Preface (cols. 771-772) you
> will see that by "interpretatur" Jerome means
> "etymologizes as". Note also that Jerome's Liber de
> nominibus haebraicis was composed ca. 390,
> approximately two years after his Commentary on
> Ephesians. In the latter, he is clearly referring to
> the Ps.(?)-Origen when he writes that Tychicus means
> "silens". In the LDNH Tychicus is explained as
> "tacens". Your opinion that Jerome was an infallible
> Hebraist is not supported by the evidence of his own
> writings. I will charitably refrain from commenting on
> your further speculations (:=))).******

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OK. George, you've done the research; I'm wrong.
The remaining question is what did Jerome have in mind (or get
from his sources) that gave "Tychicus" a Hebrew etymology
of "Silent?"
From what I have available on my bookshelf and on the Web (again I
haven't gone to a proper library), it's not obvious.
Dan