[B-Greek] subject of participles in Mt 11:1b - disciples?
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 18 20:35:11 EDT 2008
On Aug 18, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:
> 11a KAI EGENETO hOTE ETELESEN hO IHSOUS
> DIATASSWN TOIS DWDEKA MAQHTAIS AUTOU
> 11b METEBH EKEIQEN TOU
> DIDASKEIN KAI KHRUSSEIN EN TAIS POLESIN AUTWN
>
>
> Being connected with KAI, 11:1 is continuous with 10:42; whereas a new
> narrative begins at 11:2 (with DE).
>
> Thus I like to see the participles διδασκειν and
> κηρυσσειν of 11:1b
> seem taking on DIATASSWN in 11:1a as well as APESTEILEN in 10:5. Hence
> teaching and proclaiming are the activities for the disciples to carry
> on upon their mission after the lengthy instruction of the whole
> chapter 10.
>
> Superficially their subject is Jesus. The flow of text from beginning
> of Ch. 10 tells me to go for the disciples as the subject.
> Grammatically I do not find a help to decide. Is there anything to
> prove me I may be in a wrong track?
I can understand why one might expect the disciples to be the subject
of the infinitives DIDASKEIN KAI KHRUSSEIN but since METEBH is
singular and hO IHSOUS is the most recently mentioned agent, and no
scribe saw fit to change METEBH to a plural then we are left with hO
IHSOUS as the subject of the infinitives. Unless we can construe
METEBH as a singular in reference to a group as a unit. Not sure if
that would work and no commentaries I could lay hands on even suggest
it.
Elizabeth Kline
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