[B-Greek] Abel to Zechariah

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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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