the sense of ENOXOS ESTIN (Mk 3:29)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 6 06:54:13 EST 1999


At 9:35 PM -0600 12/5/99, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>In Mk 3:29 the author of Mark has Jesus proclaiming that anyone who
>blasphemes against the Holy Spirit  OUK EXEI AFESIN EIS TON AIWNA, ALLA
>ENOXOS ESTIN AIWNIOU hAMARTHMATOS.
>
>I am curious to know if the expression ENOXOS ESTIN is (a) idiomatic and
>(b) drawn from the law court and/or bears any particular legal
>significance.
>
>Is it a common phrase? Does it have Classical, secular Hellenistic,
>and/or LXX precedent. If so, in what contexts?
>
>I'd look up the expression myself -- but I'm too pressed for time right
>now.

Jeffrey: do you find yourself getting e-mail from high school students
asking for help with a homework assignment?--e.g. "what do you think of the
character of Oedipus in Sophocles' play?" or" What would you say is
characteristic of Greek tragedy?" or "Would you tell me how you'd translate
this Latin poem?" The following is what I got in a couple minutes from the
Perseus LSJ entry, and I think it offers sufficient clues to your questions:

enochos, on, = enechomenos, held in, bound by, toiautais doxais Aristot.
Met. 1009b17; tais eirêmenais blabais IDEM=Aristot. Pol. 1337b17; [ethesi
gerontikois] Apollod.Com.7.2.
2. c. gen., connected with, koiliês Hp.Ep.23.
II. as law-term, liable to, subject to, nomois, dikais, Plat. Laws 869b;
têi graphêi Xen. Mem. 1.2.64; têi krisei Ev.Matt.5.22; tôi horkôi
PRyl.82.14 (ii A. D.), etc.; tois epitimiois tou phonou Antiph. 4.1.6;
zêmiais Lys. 14.9; tais arais Dem. 19.201; desmôi IDEM=Dem. 51.4; horkôi
PHib.1.65.22 (iii B. C.), etc.; e. anoiais liable to the imputation of it,
Isoc. 8.7; hamartêmasi Aeschin. 2.146; tois aischistois epitêdeumasin
IDEM=Aeschin. 1.185.
2. enochos pseudomarturiois liable to action for . ., Plat. Theaet. 148b:
c. gen., e. tou phonou Antiph. 6.46; biaiôn, lipotaxiou (sc. dikêi,
graphêi), Plat. Laws 914e, Lys. 14.5; hierosulias LXX 2 Ma.13.6; moicheias
Vett. Val.au=LXX 117.10; e. thanatou liable to the penalty of death,
D.S.27.4, Ev.Matt.26.66 (but thanatôi Wilcken ti=Ev.Matt. Chr.13.11 (i A.
D.)): c. inf., e. estô apotisaiCIG2832.8 (Aphrodisias).
3. less freq. with Preps., e. en tois autois Decr.ap.And.1.79; peri tauta
Aristot. Rh. 1384b2; enochoi entô ens Athanaian IG4.554 (Argos, vi/v B. C.).
4. guilty, liable to the penalty for, e. tôi phonôi Antiph. 1.11, Aristot.
Pol. 1269a3, cf. ti=Aristot. Rh. 1380a3: abs., Antiph. 4.1.1,au=Antiph.
6.17, Plat. Soph. 261a, etc.
b. of property, subject to liability, PMasp.312.86 (vi A. D.).


Carl W. Conrad
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