Mark 9:2

Mike Sangrey msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Tue Apr 2 06:56:02 EST 2002


On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 03:50, Luke Hartman wrote:
> I was reading in Accordance (you PC users don¹t know what you're missing),
> and became confused by something in Mark 9. I checked the text in
> Nestle-Aland to ensure that it wasn't a Gramcord error.
> 
> HO IHSOUS TON PETRON KAI TON IAKWBON KAI TON IWANNHN KAI ANAFEREI AUTOUS EIS
> OROS hUYHLON KAT IDIAN MONOUS.
> 
> My question is IDIAN. Why is it feminine? What does it refer to? I can't
> find a word that it would agree with (as I was taught to do with
> adjectives).

It's an idiom meaning `privately'.  What's not clear to me is whether
MONOS intensifies the idiom or not.  I wonder if the idea Mark wishes to
convey is that they were "quite by themselves".  That seems to fit
Mark's exciting style.  I notice Luke says:
    hO IHSOUS TON PETRON KAI IAKWBON KAI IWANNHN TON ADELFON AUTOU, KAI
    ANAFEREI AUTOUS EIS OROS hUYHLON KAT' IDIAN.

With Accordance you should be able to search for KAT' IDIAN and find a
bunch of examples.  There are 7 in Mark alone.

-- 
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
                        "The first one last wins."
            "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."




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