Lk 2:49 EN TOIS ... (Luke in Codex Bezae issue)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 27 06:36:50 EDT 2002


At 6:28 AM -0400 9/27/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>Englished and forwarded to BG for Mme Chabert:
>
>At 4:09 PM -0400 9/26/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>>
>> Frankly I don't believe that is really a viable option. The neuter singular
>> or plural article with a genitive is so common in the sense "things having
>> to do with" or "matters concerning" that I can't but think that is by far
>> the most likely sense here, rather than that DIDASKALOI should be implied
>> from the earlier verse. And according to BDAG on substantive usage of the
>> neuter plural: EMOS
>>
>
>> EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU in my Father's house (so Field, Notes 50-56; Goodsp.
>Probs. 81-83; difft., 'interests', PTemple, CBQ 1, '39, 342-52.-In contrast
>to the other synoptists, Luke does not elsewhere show Jesus 'at home'.) Lk
>2:49 POxy 523, 3 [II AD] an invitation to a dinner EN TOIS KLAUDIOU
>SARAPIWNOS; PTebt 316 II, 23 [99 AD] EN TOIS PATAMWNOS; Esth  7:9; Job
>18:19; Jos., Ant. 16, 302. Of the temple of a god Jos., C. Ap. 1,
>> 118 EN TOIS TOU DIOS).
>
>Carl,
>
>Can't one rebut that with these citations from Alexander's Dictionary
>which indicates its sources only incompletely:
>
>-  Sophocle, EN DE TOIS EGW, "and I am among those ..."
>- EN TINI EINAI, "to be in someone's power"
>- EN TOIS MALISTA, "among those who are most so," (Plato Ep 358b or Plut,
>Alc 24 ) ?
>
>Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères

I don't really think so; the citation from Sophocles is clearly instances
of the article in the archaic demonstrative function; EN TINI EINAI is
different in that it requires the name of the person holding power; EN TOIS
MALISTA comes closest, but it could only be used with a clearly implicit
adjective which would be governed by MALISTA. I should note that I also
agree with what George Somsel noted earlier: that EINAI in the D05 reading
here

>>>NA27 : OUK HDEITE hOTI EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU DEI EINAI ME
>>>D05, W : OUK OIDATE hOTI EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU DEI ME EINAI.

can't really be existential since it's a DEI + acc. + inf. construction,
and that is so whether EINAI is in the final position of the clause or not.
-- 

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