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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