[B-Greek] Mark 16:14, W

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Jul 10 09:29:33 EDT 2004


Dear George,

>On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:28:20 +0300 Kimmo Huovila
><kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi> writes:
>>  Mark 16:14, Codex Washingtonianus
>>
>>  hO MH EWN TA hUPO TWN PNEUMATWN AKAQARTA THN ALHQEIAN TOU QEOU
>>  KATALABESQAI
>>  DUNAMIN
>>
>>  - In what sense do you take the hUPO+gen here? Under the power?
>>  Caused by?
>>  - How are ALHQEIA and DUNAMIS related? THN ALHQINHN DUNAMIN? THN
>>  ALHQEIAN KAI
>>  DUNAMIN? Or does the text make some sense without emendation?
>>  - How to take KATALABESQAI? To gain control? To comprehend?
>>  - Any comments on the distinciton between
>>  KATALAMBANW/KATALAMBANOMAI? To what
>>  degree would either form favor a particular sense for the lexeme?
>>
>>  Kimmo Huovila
>>  ---
>
>I'm not sure where you're getting this.  According to what I see W reads
>the same as is found in NA27 (longer ending) which is quite different
>from what you present.  Thinking that you might have entered an incorrect
>reference, I did a search but was unable to find your text.  Perhaps you
>should check your text and your reference.  I really would need to see
>this in Greek, not transliteration.  The combination of KATALABESQAI with
>ALHQEIAN TOU QEOU and AKAQARTA seems strange since it could only be nom /
>acc but, as you note TWN PNEUMATWN is gen, and reminds me of Simon Magus
>in Acts though the word KATALAMBANW is not used there (the aorist mid.
>inf appears only in Eph 3.18 of the critical text -- and the Byz as
>well).


HH: What Kimmo has here matches the textual note in UBS 4.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard




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