[B-Greek] Luke 13:35 AFIETAI

Wieland Willker willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
Wed Jun 15 09:45:12 EDT 2005


Luke 13:35 
IDOU AFIETAI UMIN O OIKOS UMWN

What is the correct understanding of AFIETAI here?

Some take it as: "your house is left to you".

But e.g. Pallis (Notes, 1932) writes: "this addition is due to misunderstanding AFIETAI, which was taken to mean "is left"  whereas it means EGKATALEIPETAI, "is being forsaken". ... The translation of UMIN by "unto you", or "to your own disposal" as Meyer puts it, is wrong; it is an ethic dative." 

ethic dative? Is that "your house has been abandoned you"?


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    Wieland
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