Mark 9:2

Manolis Nikolaou aei_didaskomenos at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 2 08:57:02 EST 2002



> > HO IHSOUS TON PETRON KAI TON IAKWBON KAI TON IWANNHN KAI ANAFEREI AUTOUS EIS
> > OROS hUYHLON KAT IDIAN MONOUS.

> 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.

> Mike Sangrey
> msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
> Landisburg, Pa.


"KAT' IDIAN" is semantically and syntactically similar (not identical) to
the, elsewhere occurring (e.g. Luke 9:18), "KATA MONAS". I wonder if the
parallel use of the two idioms could be "seen" in Mark's "KAT' IDIAN
MONOUS". I mean, could  "KAT' IDIAN MONOUS" possibly be regarded as an
unintentional combination of the phrases above?

Regards,
Manolis Nikolaou
Greece 



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