[B-Greek] Matt 7:15 "BEWARE OF the false prophets..."

Luke Firth luke.firth.mail at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 22:55:14 EDT 2009


"Beware of the false prophets..." is the NASB translation. Others are  
similarly worded.

The Greek here is: PROSECHETE APO TWN PSEUDOPROQHTWN, ... -  
Προσεχετε ἀπο των ψευδοπροφητων, ...

The question I'm asking is:
How do they arrive at "beware of" out of this: Προσεχετε  
ἀπο  (PROSECHETE APO)

Is PROSECHETE parsed  here as the Imperative, as apposed to,  
Indicative 2nd Plural?

The only (very literal) translation I could arrive at is:
"devote yourselves to move away from the false prophets"
... this seemed nothing like popular translation of this phase.

Please advise.

Luke.


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