[B-Greek] DESPOTA, DESPOTHS

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Aug 11 12:52:26 EDT 2006


Michael Hinton wrote:

>Why is there a difference in Luke's imperative form of DESPOTA used  
>in Luke 2:29 and Acts 4:24, and in John's DESPOTHS found in Rev 6:10?
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HH: The first two are in the vocative, while the last is nominative. 
Nominatives could be used for vocatives.

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>Also I do not understand why it is capitalized only in Acts in UBS4.
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HH: It only stands first in its sentence in Greek in Acts.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

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