Syntax of Mark 2:2

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 13 12:17:15 EDT 1999





>From: "Jay Adkins"

><TA PROS THN QURAN= The places in front of the door= courtyard. 
><The PROSDIORISMON (the qualifying expression) PROS THN QURAN is 
><expressed, but the OUSIASTIKA "places" are not. OUSIASTIKA is
><what you English speakers call names, I think.  

><C. Navarro
 
>Would the following translation then be too vague?
>
>2:2 Now there had gathered so many to such an                    
>extent there was no longer any room, not even                       
>in front of the door. 

Jay ~

Your question would probably have to be addressed to a first century 
Greek speaking person!  If Navarro is right, then TA plus description 
means precisely the area *outside* the door of the building, neatly 
balancing the area *inside* the building in the same sentence.  

That place was packed!  Standing room only and flooded outside with 
people wanting to hear too!  

So to the writer, he probably did mean the patio or courtyard, or the 
area leading up PROS THN QURAN from outside, whatever else it's 
OUSIASTIKA may have been called.

I had to chuckle ~ That thought had never even occurred to me ~ Such 
is my myopic vision.  I console myself by not remembering it occurring 
to anyone else either!  :-)

We do have the same usage in English, I believe, when we say "The 
great out-doors" yes?

George. 

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