[B-Greek] Re: Luke 19:13

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Sep 11 06:45:30 EDT 2004


At 10:07 AM +0200 9/11/04, Wieland Willker wrote:
>Dirk Jongkind wrote:
>> Compare Acts 1:4
>> PARHGGEILEN ... PERIMENEIN  THN EPAGGELIAN
>> TOU PATROS HN HKOUSATE MOU.
>
>Thank you very much for finding this interesting parallel.
>
>Robertson (Wordpictures) writes:
>"Change from indirect discourse (command), infinitives CWRIZESQAI and
>PERIMENEIN after PARHGGEILEN to direct discourse without any EFH (said
>he) as the English (Italics). Luke often does this (oratior ariata)."
>
>Might be worth a little study?
>
>
>Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>> I wonder if this last remark of Wieland is really valid;
>> ...
>> I mistrust that adverb "always" in Wieland's formulation,
>> "in Lk EIPEN PROS AUTOUS always introduces direct
>> speech."
>
>Might be worth a little study, too?

Yes, both these items might be worth a little study, but as the current
thread has amply demonstrated, text-critical concerns have a bearing upon
scholarly judgment of what constitutes regular Lucan usage. If the text one
is using is constituted by exclusion of readings that violate such
assertions, then the judgment itself is skewed.
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Carl W. Conrad
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