[B-Greek] Matt. 27:53 - META THN EGERSIN
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard at ont.com
Fri May 26 11:28:25 EDT 2006
Dear Glen,
>One commentary tells me that the Arabic and Ethiopic transcripts both
>translated it: "after their resurrection". If that helps???? I don't have
>access to either of those translations. Can anyone else verify that?
>
>
HH: One of the rules of text criticism is that the harder reading,
unless it is impossible, is likely to be correct. The theory is that a
scribe would probably change a harder reading to an easier one by
mistake sooner than he would do the reverse.
>To me, this passage makes no sense unless it reads "their". This passages
>is referring to the day Jesus died - not the day He was resurrected.
>
>
HH: Thanks for the word about your studies.
HH: I thought Dave did a decent job of showing two possible meanings.
The text says in verse 52 that when the veil was torn (v. 51) and the
earth shook and the rocks split, the tombs were opened and many bodies
of those who had died came back to life. But verse 53 can speak of a
different time. It does not have to be speaking about the day Jesus
died. It gives us supplemental information about the bodies of those who
came back to life. They came back to life at the time Jesus died, but it
was after his resurrection that they came out of the tombs (the
graveyard) in order to enter the city, where they appeared to many.
Perhaps God led them to refrain from manifesting themselves until Jesus
rose from the dead. That would be appropriate because they would appear
back from the dead at the same time that Jesus did.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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