[B-Greek] What brothers (Acts 28:21)?
Webb Mealy
webb at selftest.net
Fri Dec 14 18:04:56 EST 2007
hOI DE PROS AUTON EIPAN, hHMEIS OUTE GRAMMATA PERI SOU EDEXAMEQA APO THS
IOUDAIAS, OUTE PARAGENOMENOS TIS TWN ADELFWN APHGGEILEN H ELALHSEN TI PERI
SOU PONHRON (Acts 28:21).
21They said to Paul, “We haven’t received letters from Judea about you. And
none of the Jewish brothers has arrived and reported or said anything bad
about you.
I’m wondering if there is anything in the Greek here to suggest that TIS TWN
ADELFWN has a wider reference than to brothers from Judea. Rome was a big
city and an international hub, and I suppose that Jews dropped by the
synagogues there during travels all over the place on a regular basis. Is it
just a contextual matter to prefer the sense that they’re talking about
brothers from Judea, or is there something about the way the whole thing is
syntactically arranged that gives us the clue that they’re talking about
brothers from Judea? Does the OUTE…OUTE pattern lean in that direction?
Webb Mealy
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