[B-Greek] Alford on Acts 7:59
bwmeyers at toast.net
bwmeyers at toast.net
Mon Aug 6 13:25:09 EDT 2007
In Alford's Greek Testament, on Acts 7:59, Henry Alford writes:
>59.] The attempt to escape from this direct prayer to the
>Saviour by making 'Ieesou' the genitive, and supposing it
>addressed to the Father, in the face of the ever recurring
>words kurios Ieesous (see Rev. xxii. 20 especially), and
>the utter absence of any instance or analogy to justify it,
>is only characteristic of the school to which it belongs.
>Yet in this case it has been favoured even by Bentley
>and Valcknaer, who supposed Theou to have been
>omitted in the text, being absorbed by the preceding -on.
I need understanding of this last statement: All of my
commentators, including Alford, indicate there is no
Theou at all, in any manuscript or other reference to this
verse, many of them severely criticising the KJV for
inserting it. What does Alford mean, "who supposed
Theou to have been omitted" and what does "being
absorbed by the preceding -on" mean?
>But if any such accus. had been used, it would certainly
>have been [ton Theon].
And this is also Greek to me. Could someone explain
what he is saying here?
>The same prayer in substance
>had been made by our Lord on the cross (ref. Luke) to
>His Father. To Him was now committed the key of David.
>Similarly, the young man Saul, in after years: 2 Tim. i. 12.
Thank you
Bob Meyers
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