[B-Greek] Mark 4 hO...AUTO...ALLO...ALLA
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Oct 9 15:21:07 EDT 2004
Dear Mitch,
>Mark 4 has the following reference to the "seed" that
>is sown. The first reference in verse 4 indicates that
>hO MEN fell, and that the birds came to devour AUTO
>(the hO MEN). The next reference to this seed that was
>sown is ALLO, again in the singular. In verse 8, ALLA
>is used, switching to the plural. I'm assuming the
>collective sense is meant with hO MEN and AUTO and
>ALLO. So what is the significance of switching to the
>plural ALLA by the time you get to verse 8?
>
>4 KAI EGENETO EN TWi SPEIREIN hO MEN EPESEN PARA THN
>hODON..... KATEFAGEN AUTO....
>
>7 KAI ALLO EPESEN....
>
>8 KAI ALLA EPESEN ...
HH: All I can guess is that Jesus may have conceived of the seed in
verse 8 as plural because of the plurality of results:
Mark 4:8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and
produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, and a hundred times."
HH: We normally think of the good seed as one fourth of the whole,
with three fourths sown on the roadside, the rocks, and the thorns.
But perhaps we should think of three batches of seed that produced no
fruit, and three that became fruitful.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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