[B-Greek] KOPIOUSIN (B/03 in Mt 6:28)
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 28 22:54:12 EST 2003
At 08:01 PM 12/28/03 -0500, Jonathan Borland wrote:
>According to NA27, Codex Vaticanus in Mt 6:28 has KOPIOUSIN for
>KOPIWSIN. Is there a word KOPIOW in the Gr language, or is this an
>error or iticism? If the latter, why did NA27 include it? Was there a
>time when -AW verbs were allowed to be contracted as -OW verbs? Was
>there a time when -AW contract verbs used -OU- to distinguish present
>indicative from present subjunctive?
This is discussed in Blass-Debrunner-Funk § 90 (Confusion of
paradigms in -AN and -EIN), where "[t]here are some traces in
Koine of a mixture of -AN and -EIN, resulting in a single
paradigm in which OU appears for W and the corresponding forms
from -AN for EI." In the notes, Moulton & Howard 195 is cited
for a fuller treatment.
Note that BDF incorrectly cites Matt 6:28 D as an example of
this, since D is lacunose here and B has the variant. Another
example with the same verb is Rom 16:12 where P46 and 1738
read KOPIOUSAS.
Stephen Carlson
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