Mark 4:30 EN TINI AUTHN PARABOLHi *QWMEN*
Carl Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jul 26 10:37:21 EDT 1998
On 07/26/98, "Jonathan Robie <jonathan at texcel.no>" wrote:
> Mark 4:30 KAI ELEGEN: PWS *hOMOIWSWMEN* THN BASILEIAN TOU QEOU H EN TINI
> AUTHN PARABOLHi *QWMEN*
>
> hOMOIWSWMEN and QWMEN are aorist subjunctive plurals. I assume that the
> "we" here is the speaker (Jesus) and the audience, right? Is this a common
> usage in Greek? I have just started looking for it elsewhere in the New
> Testament...
Once again I find myself having to access the list and respond via the web
site rather than mail, as my home domain is down. Nevertheless, it seems to
work.
This is what's generally called a "deliberative" subjunctive; it may take a
first-person singular form, but it quite frequently has a rhetorical force
and does go, as in this instance, into the first-plural, assuming a sort of
classroom (or courtroom?) setting of a discussion in which the speaker and
his audience are participating together. The examples that come most
readily to my mind and in Paul's rhetorical argumentation in Romans, e.g.
Rom 6:1, TI OUN EROUMEN? EPIMENWMEN THi hAMARTIAi, hINA hH CARIS PLEONASHi?
or Rom 6:15, TI OUN? hAMARTHSWMEN, hOTI OUK ESMEN hUPO NOMON ALLA hUPO
CARIN?
CWC
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