Mat 14:32

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sat Aug 10 00:34:33 EDT 2002


on 8/9/02 5:26 PM, B. D. Colt wrote:

> In Matthew 14:31, I note EIS TI EDISTASAS; which NET at least (and
> probably more--I didn't check) translates as "Why did you doubt?"
> What I am puzzled about is, what is the function of EIS here?
> 
> Barbara D. Colt 
> St John the Evangelist, San Francisco

Barbara,

EIS is used here to mark a GOAL. TI is accusative. So we could unpack the
sense of EIS TI as "for what purpose" or "what was your reason for" the
question being about the GOAL or intention of doubting.

Here are some other examples

MATT. 26:8 IDONTES DE hOI MAQHTAI HGANAKTHSAN LEGONTES: EIS TI hH APWLEIA
hAUTH; 

MARK 14:4 HSAN DE TINES AGANAKTOUNTES PROS hEAUTOUS: EIS TI hH APWLEIA hAUTH
TOU MUROU GEGONEN; 
MARK 15:34 KAI THi ENATHi hWRAi EBOHSEN hO IHSOUS FWNHi MEGALHi: ELWI ELWI
LEMA SABACQANI; hO ESTIN MEQERMHNEUOMENON: hO QEOS MOU hO QEOS MOU, EIS TI
EGKATELIPES ME; 

Clay

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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