Mk 2:21

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Sat Apr 17 00:20:17 EDT 1999


Dear B-Greekers,

I am puzzled over Mk 2:21b:

EI DE MH, AIREI TO PLHROMA AP' AUTOU TO KAINON TOU PALAIOU KAI
CEIRON SCISMA GINETAI.

1) I understand TO PLHROMA to be the thing that fills the original
hole of the old garment. But still I find this expression strange?
Any helpful comments?

2) What kind of accusative is TO KAINON?
   The translations take TO KAINON TOU PALAIOU as a kind of
    circumstantial clause. 

3) In CEIRON SCISMA GINETAI, is SCISMA the subject of GINETAI?
   I wonder if it is so, because SCISMA lacks the article TO.
   Or should we understand it to mean "It (the garment) became 
   a worse SCISMA"?

Respectfully,
Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea
    



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