hUPER TWN ONTWN

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 20 14:33:36 EST 2001


At 1:25 PM -0600 3/20/01, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 2:13 PM -0500 3/20/01, Justin Richmond wrote:
>>Hello
>>
>>I'm having trouble with my reader. It isn't a passage from the Bible so
>>Zerwick (I'm assuming) won't have it. The passage is, "POQEN ARXOMEQA
>>ARTOUS hEUREIN hIKANOUS hUPER TWN ONTWN hWDE" where Q=theta and X=xi. It's
>>the "hUPER TWN ONTWN" I'm having trouble with: the "TWN ONTWN" because I
>>don't know what it means and I can't find it in my lexicons, and the
>>"hUPER" because of context ("from where shall we begin to find bread
>>sufficient 'hUPER TWN ONTWN' here). Please help
>>J.D. Richmond
>
>I'd like to know where this is supposed to come from; it looks very much
>like Greek made up by a modern to me. Nevertheless the meaning has to be
>"for those who are here"; hWDE must be understood with ONTWN in this
>expression, although it seems to me that more natural word order would be
>hUPER TWN hWDE ONTWN and that the more natural expression would be hUPER
>TWN PARONTWN to convey the idea "for the ones here present."

Upon a bit of searching, it looks to me like this is a reformulation of
John 6:5: (Jesus) QEASAMENOS hOTI POLUS OCLOS ERCETAI PROS AUTON LEGEI PROS
FILIPPON, "POQEN AGORASWMEN ARTOUS hINA FAGWSIN hOUTOI?

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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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