Syntax Mark 8:4

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Tue May 18 08:26:55 EDT 1999


On 05/17/99, ""George Blaisdell" <maqhth at hotmail.com>" wrote:
> >From: "Jay Adkins"
> 
> >Please help this little Greek understand the syntax of Mark 8:4,
> >particularly the terms hOTI, TOUTOUS, & ARTWN.
> 
> >It reads,
> 
> KAI APEKRIQHSAN AUTW hOI MAQHTAI AUTOU
> hOTI POQEN TOUTOUS DUNHSETAI
> TIS
> WDE CORTASAI APTWN EP'ERHMIAS;
> 
> Jay ~
> 
> I construe hOTI with APEKRIQHSAN ~ [they] replied that...
> 
> TOUTOUS as the object of CORTASAI ~ To satisfy these...
> 
> ARTWN modifying CORTASAI ~ To satisfy breadwise... [of breads]

Isn't ARTWN the "object" of the verb CORTASA in the genitive case?

Or isn't ARTWN the ablative case so that CORTASAI ARTWN means
"feed (people) from breads"?

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



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