[B-Greek] Luke 19:13
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 8 20:48:47 EDT 2004
At 6:40 PM -0500 9/8/04, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
>On Sep 8, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>> 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, if we did have the infinitive in indirect speech here, would that
>require ERCOMAI to be third person (ERCETAI)? It seems to me it would,
>but I'm not totally sure.
Yes, I think it probably would; to me that's the more reason to think that
PRAGMATEUSASQAI is not an aorist infinitive but a "homonym" for
PRAGMATEUSASQE.
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Carl W. Conrad
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