What Bible verse is George MacDonald talking about here? Mysterious passageShow“About two years ago,” said Polwarth, “a friend sent me Tauchnitz’s edition of the English New Testament, which has the different readings of the three oldest known manuscr…
vol 2 the Grammatical Focus is a peculiar lexiconsuppose you want to find all Nouns Fem.Acc.Plur. look at page XII Abbreviations and Symbols (archive.org scan page 18) you see N F A P.Look at the right page (uneaven pages) at the top right, you will f…
Here is the listing INTF-mss Mt 24.35:01-corrector2ο ο̅υ̅ν̅ο̅ς̅ και η γη παρελευσεται οι δε λογοι μου ου μη παρελθωσιν ms: 01-firsthand ms: 03ο ουρανος και η γη παρελευσεται οι δε λογοι μου ου μη παρελθωσιν ms: 05ο ουρανος και η γη παρελευσεται οι δε …
Yes I figured that that’s what had thrown you, the use of ἐάν for ἄν. It’s actually very common in post-classical texts. If you find ἐάν after a clause-initial relative such as ὅς or ὅστις (or ᾧ in this instance), that’s what it will be, not ἐάν “if.”…
I thought that this might just be something to do with the poetry here, and looked at how ἀλλ’ ἤ gets used elsewhere. A quick scan through Genesis and the early books of the LXX shows it mostly being used in the “standard” way, to mean “unless” or “ex…
We mustn’t confuse the issues. There’s the εαν/αν spelling, and there’s the question of the semantics in various syntactic contexts. And there’s the question of textual corruption and “correction.” And the enquiry should not be limited to the NT, with…
Ah, I missed that in verse 2, thanks. But again the ἢ may have been included there to signal a comparison between the two behaviors described in verses 1 and 2. The reason I’m bringing this up is because I just finished reading Chapter 32 Comparison o…
Hi all, this is mind-boggling to me as well, but my first reaction was that this might be a gloss interpolation (i.e. textual corruption caused by someone copying into the main text a marginal note). A further bit of context I noted was that this sect…
OK thanks Michael but I’m actually trying to understand what’s happening grammatically here. If the sentence basically says “THIS is THAT” where THAT is a subject+predicate prefaced with οτι then what does one call this kind of syntactical constructio…
Job 37:9ἐκ ταμιείων ἐπέρχονται δῖναι ἀπὸ δὲ ἀκρωτηρίων ψῦχοςBrenton’s Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-topsKJV Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.Vulgate ab interioribus egreditur te…
Maybe the reason for the passive translation is, that the evil will probably not volontarely get out of the way, but must be removed (by whom-/whatsover).Even mr Bill Mounce has questions regarding this text (https://www.billmounce.com/path/should-be-…
I think that the reader is probably supposed to understand the imagined event as a type spoken persuasion. But all the Greek says is that the beast “will make them so they’ll get put to death”. It’s not precise. Did the author imagine the beast orderi…
I’d take this as meaning something like “As to jealousy he longs for the spirit that he implanted in us.” The subject of επιποθεῖ must surely be God, and το πνεῦμα must surely be its object. I really don’t see much room for doubt about that. The diffi…
I like Mitch’s explanation.Statistics: Posted by jeidsath — Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:08 pm
Impossible to say precisely of course, but basically locative, of the environment in which he was raised. Not instrumental: “he brought me up me on water”—i.e. with water—would be plain dative.Statistics: Posted by mwh — Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:09 pm
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Well regarding Brenton, I suppose by “for thy crafty tongue” he means “in view of…” or “with regard to…” and I think CGCG 31.8 admits this usage for προς with accusative. Like someone saying “I hate you for doing that” which could also be expresse…
I like Mitch’s explanation.Statistics: Posted by jeidsath — Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:08 pm
Hi all, this is mind-boggling to me as well, but my first reaction was that this might be a gloss interpolation (i.e. textual corruption caused by someone copying into the main text a marginal note). A further bit of context I noted was that this sect…
Here’s Polybius with an aorist of the same verb, taking a dative object. After laying out the main points of the treaty:Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὑπετυπώθη τότε κεφαλαιωδῶς περὶ τῶν διαλύσεων· ἔδει δὲ τούτοις πρῶτον μὲν εὐδοκῆσαι τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα γίνε…
Impossible to say precisely of course, but basically locative, of the environment in which he was raised. Not instrumental: “he brought me up me on water”—i.e. with water—would be plain dative.Statistics: Posted by mwh — Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:09 pm
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