The adverbial construction απο + adverb with suffix -θεν (απο μακροθεν, απο πριωθεν, απο εμπροσθεν etc.) occurs about 20 times in LXX; in the NT απο μακροθεν 12 times, once απο ανωθεν in Mk 15:38), and in some Churchfathers.
In Homer (I…
Καὶ οὕτως ὑψοῦ[ται ἐ]πὶ ξύλου καὶ τίτλος πρόσκει[ται]
τὸν πεφονευμένον σημαίνων. Τίς [οὗτ]ος; Τὸ εἰπεῖν βαρὺ
καὶ τὸ μὴ εἰπεῖν φοβερώτερον. Πλὴν ἀκούσατε τρέμοντες
δι’ ὃν ἐτρόμησεν ἡ γῆ·
Ὁ κρεμάσας τὴν γῆν κρέμαται.
Ὁ πήξας τοὺς οὐρανοὺς πέ…
αὕτη ἐγενήθη μοι ὅτι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐξεζήτησα
NETS translates this as:
“This [note added: antecedent unclear] fell to me, because I sought your statues”
But could it also be translated like this:
“This fell to me, that I sought your sta…
In legal Papyri-documents sometimes at the end appear sentences like:
εγραψεν υπερ αυτου Διονυσιος … ο προγεγραμμενος δια το αυτον μη επιστασθαι γραμματα.
(Dionysius, who has written the foregoing text, has written for him, as he is illite…
The INTF and the IGNTP both have a lot of manuscript-transcriptions, but it is not possible on their Websites to search a specific reading in all transcriptions.
So I collected all available Transcripts of both institutes and built a kind …