[B-Greek] Mt 26:60 D reading
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 25 06:47:22 EDT 2003
At 11:00 AM +0200 9/25/03, Wieland Willker wrote:
>Matthew 26:60 KAI OUC EURON
>POLLWN PROSELQONTWN YEUDOMARTURWN.
>
>D reads::
>... KAI OUC EURON TO EXHS.
>POLLWN KAI PROSELQONTWN YEUDOMARTURWN OUC EURON TO EXHS.
>
>What does the TO EXHS mean here?
In L&N and in BDAG I find only THi hEXHS hHMERAi and EN TWi hEXHS
(CRONWi),but LSJ shows a considerably history for the adverbial expression
going back as far as Homer; one item is
"3. Gramm., TO hEXHS .grammatical sequence, opp. HUPERBATON , A.D. Pron
.41.3,al.; KAI TA hEXHS ., Lat. et cetera, PTeb. 319.34 (iii A. D.), etc. "
>From this I think it may not be an unreasonable conjecture that OUC hEURON
TO hEXHS means something like, "and they couldn't find the logical
connection" or (using ECW as a not uncommon equivalent of DUNAMAI): "they
were unable to put it all together."
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Carl W. Conrad
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