Gospel of Peter 3.6

Mark Goodacre M.S.GOODACRE at bham.ac.uk
Tue Mar 2 11:23:17 EST 1999


On  2 Mar 99 at 11:13, Prof. A K M Adam wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Doesn't the syntax of ECW EXOUSIAN indicate that over which one has
> authorioty by using the genitive case?
> 
> cp. Matt 10:1 EDWKEN AUTOIS EXOUSIAN PNEUMATWN AKAQARTWN
> 
> John 19:11 OUK EICES EXOUSIAN KAT' EMOU
> 
> and so on?
> 
> That would lend weight to James's translation....

Yes; many thanks.  So is it the case that ESXHKOTES can adequately 
be translated "having seized", "having obtained" or "having gotten"?  Does 
anyone know of parallels to this?

Mark
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