Mk 16:2 Constituent Order

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Tue Jun 26 16:44:55 EDT 2001


On Tue 26 Jun 2001 (11:57:36), cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> Some of you linguists have any ideas about the pragmatic significance
> of the clause final position of ANATEILANTOS TOU hHLIOU?
> 
> Comments from nonlinguists are also welcome.

 Dear Clay,

 As a non-linguist, ISTM that here we have two adverbial expressions of time,
 one being when the women set out for the tomb; the other being the time when
 they arrived there. Swete suggests we understand for ERCONTAI "EXELQOUSAI...
 HLQON" (HB Swete, /The Gospel according to St Mark/, Macmillan, London, 3rd
 Ed., 1920, p 395). LIAN PRWI means before dawn; ANATEILANTOS TOU hHLIOU
 means after dawn: the one before the other, because the one *is* before the
 other!

 The Western MS D (Bezae) tries to reconcile LIAN PRWI with ANATEILANTOS TOU
 hHLIOU by substituting the present tense for the aorist: ANATELLONTOS instead
 of ANATEILANTOS. This gives the sense "as the sun was beginning to rise",
 harmonising with the accounts in Matthew 28:1, Luke 24:1, and John 20:1.
 The Latin Vulgate has /et valde mane... orto iam sole/ which seems to be
 whence Beza got his version. "Early one morning, just as the sun was
 rising..." as the English folk song has it.

 HTH
 ERRWSQE
 Ben
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