Revelations 2:23 wrote:καὶ δώσω ὑμῖν ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα ὑμῶν.
Is there an explanation why ὑμῖν ἑκάστῳ would have been written that way rather than ἑκάστῳ ὑμῶν, or αὐτοῖς ἑκάστῳ rather than ἑκάστῳ αὐτῶν? There must have been a systematic error in the authour's understanding of Greek syntax to prompt them to produce the same syntax consistently. They clearly feel that the group should be mentioned before the individualRevelations 6:11 wrote:Καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς ἑκάστῳ στολὴ λευκή
The same (mis-)understanding also seems to be implied in Revelations 20:13
Which if it had agreement between verb and subject would be καὶ ἐκρίθησαν {αὐτοὶ} ἕκαστος κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν, which might imply that they felt that the verb ἐκρίθησαν itself implied enough of the subject.Revelations 20:13 wrote:καὶ ἐκρίθησαν ἕκαστος κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν.
Is there something about how a similar word is used in another language, or is this an indication of a later development?
On another point, it seems that in regard to the ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστος τῶν πυλώνων in
It seems that the smoothing out of the Greek - that presumably happened in the period before the widespread acceptance of the Book of Revelations into the canon - that we can see in Matthew 26:22, could help give us a justification for a (conjectured) smoothed out version of this ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστος τῶν πυλώνων, rather than just relying on our own common sense.Revelations 21:21 wrote:Καὶ οἱ δώδεκα πυλῶνες, δώδεκα μαργαρῖται· ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστος τῶν πυλώνων ἦν ἐξ ἑνὸς μαργαρίτου· καὶ ἡ πλατεῖα τῆς πόλεως χρυσίον καθαρόν, ὡς ὕελος διαυγής.
Matthew 26:22 (Byz. 2005 Text) wrote:Καὶ λυπούμενοι σφόδρα ἤρξαντο λέγειν αὐτῷ ἕκαστος αὐτῶν, Μήτι ἐγώ εἰμι, κύριε;
I mean that we could substitute the ἕκαστος αὐτῶν (from the smoothing out in Matthew) for the εἷς ἕκαστος (in Revelations) and then match the case to the needs of the preposition, giving ἀνὰ ἕκαστον τῶν πυλώνων.Matthew 26:22 (Eclectic text) wrote:Καὶ λυπούμενοι σφόδρα ἤρξαντο λέγειν αὐτῷ εἷς ἕκαστος, Μήτι ἐγώ εἰμι, κύριε;
I don't want to put it into the signature, because it is not so important to be stated more than once, but I do feel I am picking up stones and trying to explain mountains.