[B-Greek] Abel to Zechariah
frjsilver at optonline.net
frjsilver at optonline.net
Thu Feb 22 13:09:59 EST 2007
The referent is singular in both cases, so must describe Z only.
KALE TESSARAKOSTE PASIN hUMIN!
Monk James
Fr James Silver
Orthodox Church in America
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Sisson
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:51 pm
Subject: [B-Greek] Abel to Zechariah
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Having no personal knowledge of Biblical Greek, I appreciate the
>
> opportunity to draw upon the knowledge of those who do to answer
> the
> following question regarding alternate translations of the
> Biblical
> Greek in two parallel verses.
>
> Setting aside historical and theological expectations for the
> moment
> and without doing violence to original Greek text, could "who"
> and
> "whom" (the pronouns referring to the "murdered between the
> temple
> and the altar") in the following verses refer to every righteous
>
> person from Abel to Zechariah, or must it refer to Zechariah only?:
>
> (NASB) Matt. 23:35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all
> the
> righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel
> to
> the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered
> between the temple and the altar.
>
> (NASB) Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of
> Zechariah,
> who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I
> tell
> you, it shall be charged against this generation.’
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