two tunics

Ben and Jo Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Thu Jun 13 04:32:49 EDT 2002


You wrote:
 
> Mark 6:9 admonishes the disciples not to *endushsthe
> duo chitwnas* on their mission.  

 Interesting. Bruce Metzger is silent on this; as is the app: crit: in
 the GNT. But I found this from CEB Cranfield:

 "MH ENDUSHSQE DUO CITWNAS.  The v.l. ENDUSASQE (B*33) should perhaps be read:
 both the subjunctive ENDUSHSQE and the infinitive ENDUSASQAI being explicable
 as corrections of the unusual MH + aorist imperative. Whereas as Matt 10:10
 and Luke 9:3 refer to taking a change of underwear, this apparently forbids
 wearing one CITWN over another, for which luxurious custom Bauer cites some
 references (Mark 14:63 is not an example, for there the plural denotes
 'clothes' generally).

 "TW Manson has suggested, appealing to (M) Ber.ix.5 ('He may not enter into
 the Temple Mount with his staff or his sandal or his wallet'), that perhaps
 that the implication of the most primitive form of the charge is that the
 mission is a sacred undertaking comparable with worship in the Temple
 (Sayings, p 181). At any rate, the rigour of these prohibitions implies that
 the mission was extremely urgent. ..." [snip theological considerations]
 (CEB Cranfield, /The Gospel According to St Mark/, Cambridge University Press,
 1959, p 199f.)

 ERRWSQE
 Ben
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