[B-Greek] EATE hEWS TOUTOU (Luke 22:51)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Apr 8 05:47:16 EDT 2008


On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:47 PM, George F Somsel wrote:

> Yeh, something like, "Knock it off, guys."

I think my slightly more conventional idiom would be:
"No more of that now!"

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Webb Mealy <webb at selftest.net>
> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 8:31:07 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] EATE hEWS TOUTOU (Luke 22:51)
>
> EATE hEWS TOUTOU (Luke 22:51)
>
> Am I right in thinking the present plural imperative EATE is  
> directed to all
> the disciples? Does it kind of mean,
>
> “Let that be the end of it, you guys”?
>
> Webb Mealy








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