[B-Greek] eis in Luke 11:7
Jerry Reimer
Jerry at lsm.org
Mon May 14 15:21:27 EDT 2007
Dear Sirs,
Is the presence of eis in Luke 11:7 (literally: into the bed) an example of the movement of the language toward Modern Greek in which eis has pushed en out of the language ( at least out of Demotic and maybe out of Kathareusa [I am not knowledgeable about what is or is not in Kathareusa and vice-versa with regard to Demotic])?
Someone has suggested to me that this is possibly a pregnant construction presupposing movement (having come and gotten into bed, they are there in it) rather than an example of linguistic change with eis already subsuming en from time to time even in the first century. As you know Zerwick points out this phenomenon (eis=en in some places in the NT. Is this one of them?
Thank-you.
Jerry Reimer
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