[B-Greek] Luke 19:13

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 8 09:34:53 EDT 2004


At 2:52 PM +0200 9/8/04, Wieland Willker wrote:
>Luke 19:13 KALESAS DE DEKA DOULOUS EAUTOU EDWKEN AUTOIS DEKA MNAS KAI
>EIPEN PROS AUTOUS PRAGMATEUSASQE EN hW ERCOMAI.
>
>Some MSS read here the infinitive PRAGMATEUSASQAI, which makes it
>indirect speech, but is this consistent with ERCOMAI?

Wieland, I rather think that it is simply a matter of spelling--it's not
really an aorist middle infinitive; remember that AI and E were pronounced
the same. This is a fairly common orthographical "error" that I've found
very, very common in my work in the Codex Bezae text of GMk.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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