[B-Greek] Mt 9.18a Indefinite articles
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 16 23:20:57 EDT 2008
TAUTA AUTOU LALOUNTOS AUTOIS IDOU ARCWN hEIS ELQWN
PROSEKUNEI AUTWi LEGWN....
To take ARCWN hEIS as "one leader" seems awkward in
this context. I note many translations prefer "a
leader/ruler." It would seem then that this is pretty
clearly to be taken as an indefinite article. Why,
since this indefinite use was readily available to
first century Greeks, did they use it in only rare
instances? Obviously ARCWN itself could have been
used, but at the risk of it being understood as
Monadic or Well-Known, etc. As it is quite obvious
from my questions, I only can "think" in English so
many of my questions come from how an American in the
21st century looks at things. But it just seems like
having a sure-enough indefinite article would come in
rather handy now and then.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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