[B-Greek] SHMERON in LUke 23:43
Kenneth Litwak
javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Tue May 18 01:29:51 EDT 2004
Yesterday I was asked about LUke 23:43, by parties
on one side of an argument I wasn't involved in
(mercifully). Here's the question. Given that there
was no punctuation in first century Greek writing, is
there any way to determine, on _purely_ grammatical
grounds, whehter SHMERON goes with what precedes or
follows it? IN other words, does Lke record of Jesus
as sayng
1. Today I say to you, you will be with me in
paradise [at some future point]
or
2. I say to you that on this very day you will be
with me in paradise
I would never have thoght of #1 being an option, but
the people who asked me aobut it strongly support
number #1. I'm not aware of any rule, and I"m not
ready to go read the TLG for occurrences of SHMERON.
That could take years to analyze. Thanks.
Kenneth Litwak, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Southwestern College
Wichita, KS
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