[B-Greek] EXESTAKENAI in Acts 8:11: transitive or intransitive?

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Mar 9 16:04:17 EST 2005



Randy Leedy wrote:

>Thanks to Stephen Carlson and Iver Larsen for helpful input. The
>quotations from the medieval sources seem particularly helpful toward
>establishing the legitimacy of a transitive sense. And I appreciate
>seeing the REB's rendering.
>
As relevent as medieval texts may be for understanding the growth and 
development of the language to its present form, they are totally 
irrelevent for interpretation of the New Testament documents.  It is, it 
seems to me, terribly perilous to read NT texts in that anachronistic 
fashion.

Best,

Jim

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