[B-Greek] Biblical Greek question

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Tue Oct 19 19:52:07 EDT 2004


Adrian:

I don't hink anyone in that time period would have
connected the two words anymore than someone today
would connect that "symphony" and "synthesis" and
"sympathetic" all have a common morpheme 

Kevin


--- Adrian Standeven <ac.standeven at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me?
> 
> In Mark 11:4 we read the phrase  *"a place where two
> ways met"* - 
> Strongs concordance suggests this word to be
> /"amphodon" /and informs me 
> that it is from the base /"amphoteros" /and /"hodos"
> /and is used 
> nowhere else in the NT.
> 
> Now in Ephesians 2:14 we read the word *"both"* -
> Strongs concordance 
> says the word to be /"amphoteros".
> 
> /The question I have is this - would there be a
> connection in the mind 
> of a Greek reader when comparing the phrase in Mark
> 11:4 and Ephesians 
> 2:14. Could there be a sense in which the *"both"
> *of Ephesians, whilst 
> referring to maybe Jew & Gentile, Mark could be
> making a similar 
> allusion in the scene being presented? (The scene is
> full of "pairs".)
> 
> Hope all this makes sense!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adrian Standeven (Bible Student)
> /
> 
> /
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