Mattew 24:5

Larry Swain swainl at calcite.rocky.edu
Tue Nov 24 11:29:47 EST 1998


Juan, 

Just a few notes to add to Jim's here:

The verse you're questioning is a form of indirect discourse in Koine.
The sentence parses like this:

Many ..... saying: (and this is what they say) "I am the Christ...." and 

the legountes is Nominative plural and so modifies the subject polloi

Hope that helps.

Larry Swain




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