Thinking Like a Scribe Mk 6:46

Daniel L Christiansen dlc at multnomah.edu
Wed Apr 5 00:36:01 EDT 2000


clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
> 
> I was reading along in Mk 6 and when I came to the end of 6:45 and read:
> 
> hEWS AUTOS APOLUEI TON OXLON
> 
> For some reason it just popped into my head that APOLUEI should be a
> subjunctive here. After mulling it over for 90 seconds I grabbed Ruben
> Swanson' s Mark and looked up this passage and saw a whole list of
> manuscripts which read APOLUSHi.
> 
> My question is an elementary one. What was it in this text that made me
> think subjunctive automatically when I read it?

The cause is not in THIS text, but in another like it: you have read
Matt 14:22.
-- 
Daniel L. Christiansen
Department of Bible
Multnomah Bible College
8435 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR  97220
(Also Portland Bible College, Prof of Biblical Languages)
e-mail: dlc at multnomah.edu



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