[B-Greek] Mk 8:12 - ... EI DOQH'SETAI...

Carlton Winbery winberycl at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 12 17:47:33 EST 2008


>I understand... But if it is foreign to Greek, is it that we could get some
>help in understanding the Greek text by explaining the Semitic structure
>which the Greek had imported? I mean, is this a "rigorous" and logical
>expression in Hebrew? For if it is, then I think we should have no problem
>of understanding: along with the imported structure, we get the "User's
>Manual" for it.
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The paragraph in BDAG seems helpful to me.
4. marker of strong or solemn assertion, without apodosis (=in 
aposiopesis; B-D-F §482; Rob. 1203) EI EGNWSei™  if you only knew Lk 
19:42. EI BOULEI PARENEGKAI if you would only let (this) pass 22:42 
v.l. (cp. the letter fr. IV BC in Dssm., LO 120, note 5 [LAE 
149]).-Hebraistic in oaths, like MIa EiM: may this or that happen to 
me, if . . . (cp. 2 Km 3:25; GBuchanan, HTR 58, '65, 319-24); this 
amounts to a strong negation certainly not (cp. Ps 7:4f; Gen 14:23)
AMHN LEGW hUMIN EI DOQHSETAI truly, I tell you, it will not be given 
Mk 8:12 (NColeman, JTS 28, 1927, 159-67 interprets this as strongly 
positive; against him FBurkitt, ibid. 274-76). EI EISELEUSONTAI they 
shall certainly not enter Hb 3:11; 4:3, 5 (all 3 Ps 94:11); B-D-F 
§372, 4; 454, 5; Mlt-H. 468f; Rob. 94; 1024.

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Carlton L. Winbery
Retired Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
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