Mt. 22:14

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 22 01:12:45 EDT 2000



Mt. 22:14

POLLOI GAR EISI KLHTOI, OLIGOI DE EKLEKTOI


An article I read recently indicated that this
comparison (POLLOI with OLIGOI) is a Semitic idiom
to denote comparisons between:

many   few
more   fewer
all    not all

The Hebrew equivalent is

Greek  = POLLOI     OLIGOI
Hebrew = rab        me'at


For example, Num. 26:52-56 is cited, where the idea is

larger versus smaller,
or more numerous versus less numerous.

Then, the author cites 4 Ezra 8.3 where the idea
is "many" must mean "all" and "few" would mean "less than all."

If his contention is correct, it seems we could have in Mt:

"All are called, but not all are chosen."

Any problems with understanding the semantics this way?

Thank you,

Mark Wilson



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