[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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