[B-Greek] EXESTAKENAI in Acts 8:11: transitive or intransitive?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 8 17:15:08 EST 2005
Randy Leedy wrote:
>I suppose your suggestion of a causative active of
>EXISTANW is as good a guess as any; at least better than anything I've
>come up with other than that the English translators just missed
>something. But I'm not comfortable thinking that I got something right
>that nearly all the translators missed, at least not without some pretty
>careful consideration of what may justify their rendering, and your
>suggestion perhaps does just that. I'll leave the jury out for a while,
>though, to see whether any clearer explanations come in.
For what it's worth, the transistive meaning is not limited to
English translators. Medieval Greek lexicographers also
considered EXESTAKENAI in that way. For example, both
the 11th cen. Michael Psellus and the 13th cen. Pseudo-
Zonaras glossed EXESTAKENAI as KATAPLHXAI "to astound".
(Psellus also gave QAUMASAI "to wonder" as a gloss.).
Stephen Carlson
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