hOTI clause Acts 17:18

Mary Pendergraft pender at wfu.edu
Tue May 25 15:40:57 EDT 1999


clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
> 
> Who is speaking at the end of Acts 17:18
> 
> hOTI TON IHSOUN KAI THN ANASTASIN EUHGGELIZETO.
> 
> I have always assumed that this was a explanatory comment by the
> narrator, not an extension of the complaint leveled by the Athenians:
> 
> hOI DE, ZENWNDAIMONIWN DOKEI KATAGGELEUS EINAI
> 
> After reading of Fitzmyer (AB) and Barrett (ICC) it seems like the hOTI
> clause is being treated as words of the Athenians. This is not stated
> outright, but seems to be implied. I could be misreading  Fitzmyer and
> Barrett.
> 
> The hOTI clause still looks to me like an interjected comment by the
> narrator.
> 
>

I'm away from my books so I can't look at the commentaries, but I think
you're right.  One reason for taking the hOTI clause as belonging to the
narrator and not to hOI DE is the tense:  The imperfect EUHGGELIZETO,is
possible after the present DOKEI, but seems to me less likely than if it
explains why the Athenians made their comments.

Mary

Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC  27109-7343



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