[B-Greek] Greek Syntax from Papias

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Wed Dec 3 08:36:21 EST 2003


At 05:23 PM 12/2/03 -0500, Doug Hoxworth wrote:
>><Stephen>
>>No. Why would PRESBUTEROS mean "aforementioned"?
>
><doug>
>here is what carson/moo/morris NT intro says:
>
>"Indeed, the Greek syntax Papias employs favors the view 
>that 'Aristion and John the elder" means something like 
>'Aristion and the aforementioned elder John.'"

This is found on p. 142.

CM&M did not claim that PRESBUTEROS means "aforemention"
since they retained "elder" in their rendering.  As for
their argument that the syntax supports this inference,
I'll have to review the article CM&M cited: C. S. Petrie,
"The Authorship of 'The Gospel According to Matthew': A
Reconsideration of the External Evidence," NTS 14 (1967/8):
21.

Stephen Carlson
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