Mk 3.5 ~ Middle Voice

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 15 01:40:57 EDT 1999





>From: "Moon" 

>George,
>thanks for your comments.
>
>You wrote:
>> I had a hard time with it for a long 
>> time!  Until I discovered its potential                            
>>for being viewed as the 
>> "inner" voice of the verb.  
>>The active directs the action outward, 
>>and the passive receives the action from without,                   
>>and the middle is simply 
>> the actor acting from within him/her self...
>
>Do you mean by it what Carl said about the middle voice,
>"it describes self-projection or self-involving actions"?

Yes, [although somewhat differently focused.]  In this passage clearly 
so, because Jesus is taking an action [to heal the withered hand] and 
the two middle participles afford us a window into just what is going 
on *within* Jesus as He tells the man to hold out his hand.  This is 
why I often like to see the middle as the 'inner' voice...

 
George Blaisdell 
Roslyn, WA 


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