Present tence copulative verbs

dalmatia at eburg.com dalmatia at eburg.com
Tue Sep 1 16:07:24 EDT 1998


Jonathan Robie wrote:

> >I am wondering, however, if the EGW EIMI's reference to Exodus may
> >have been what triggered the stoning.
> 
> Why do you see this as a reference to Exodus 3:14? I just spent 40 minutes
> looking at the two passages, and posted my results to B-Greek. As I said
> before, I would have thought hO WN would be a clear reference to Exodus
> 3:14, but I see no compelling reason to construe EGW EIMI as such.

Well, to us, it would be clearly a reference to Exodus 3:14 if hO WN
had been appended.  I guess the question should have been about
whether or not the Jews had so understood it without the hO WN. 
Clearly, the stoning followed immediately upon EGO EIMI, eh?  I was
just wondering, Jonathan...

George

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