[B-Greek] Syntax of Mark 15:39 VR

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Thu Apr 24 03:05:57 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Alan Hultberg wrote:

> Does the variant reading on Mark 15:39 found in D make sense (IDWN hO 
> KENTURIWN ... OTI hOUTWS AUTON KRAXANTA KAI EXEPNEUSEN EIPEN ...)? As 
> I see it, either AUTOS and its participle ought to be in the 
> nominative case and KAI dropped (as A and other witnesses -- "seeing 
> that he, crying out in this way, expired), or the hOTI ought to be 
> dropped and EKPVEUW be made an accusative participle ("seeing him 
> crying out in this way and expiring").  Can the accusative function 
> with hOTI and the participle be correlated with a finite verb?  I know 
> that it's not uncommon to encounter variant readings that don't make 
> sense, but am I missing something here?

Just off the cuff, Alan, it seems to me that after IDWN (verbal of 
perception) we might expect **either** the accusative pronoun with 
accusative participle in indirect discourse **or** hOTI marking 
indirect discourse, but not both. But I suppose stranger phenomena have 
been encountered.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI



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