two tunics

jwest at highland.net jwest at highland.net
Thu Jun 13 06:08:19 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).


thanks. 

j.






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