Luke 8:9
B. D. Colt
babc2 at home.com
Sun Nov 11 20:36:13 EST 2001
On 8 Nov 01, at 3:55, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> At 7:48 PM -0800 11/7/01, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
> > Luke 8:9 reads:
> >EPHRWTWN DE AUTON hOI MAQHTAI AUTOU, TIS hAUTH EIH hH
> >PARABOLH.
> >
> >1. EIH is an optative of EIMI and does not mean
> >"mean" but "be" or "happen" or the like. How can
> >translation like the NASB or the New Revised Serpent
> >Versrion (NRSV) justify translating this as
> >"means/meant'?
Zerwick and Grosvenor says it is "a Sem. use of EINAI reflecting the
lack of a special word for 'sense, meaning, or mean.'"
Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at home.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
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