[B-Greek] Luke 21:8
Elizabeth Kline
kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 25 15:24:01 EST 2005
Dr. Conrad,
On Nov 25, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> For my part, I rather doubt that this can be resolved in terms of
> any "rules."
Agreed.
> I assume that the punctuation is inserted by the editors. My own
> guess -- and I don't claim more for it than a guess -- is that the
> evangelist intended us to understand these as two major claims/
> assertions that will be made by messianic pretenders, not that each
> of the messianic pretender will assert both propositions.
This was also my take on it. If Luke had intended to make this
explicit he could have used a construction like we find in Matt.
16:14 hOI DE EIPAN: hOI MEN IWANNHN TON BAPTISTHN, ALLOI DE HLIAN,
hETEROI DE IEREMIAN H hENA TWN PROFHTWN. However by using a simple
KAI to join the two sayings he leaves it somewhat open ended.
> At any rate, I think that if the editors of NA27 had thought that
> BOTH propositions are to be proclaimed by each of the messianic
> pretenders, they would have omitted any punctuation before and
> after the KAI.
I am not quite sure about the logic of the punctuation.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Kline
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