[B-Greek] resend: Matt 13:17
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Mar 3 06:29:54 EST 2009
On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Ross Assink wrote:
> Please ignore the previous email question:
>
> Is there any significance to the three uses of "see" in Matthew
> 13:17? When there is only one use of "hear".
Your question is evidently not about the Greek but about words
translated; our focus on this list is strictly with the Greek text.
The Greek text of the verse in question --
Matt. 13:17 ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι
πολλοὶ προφῆται καὶ δίκαιοι
ἐπεθύμησαν ἰδεῖν ἃ βλέπετε καὶ οὐκ
εἶδαν, καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἃ ἀκούετε καὶ
οὐκ ἤκουσαν. [AMHN GAR LEGW hUMIN hOTI POLLO PROFHTAI KAI
DIKAIOI EPEQUMHSAN IDEIN hA BLEPETE KAI OUK EIDAN, KAI AKOUSAI hA
AKOUETE KAI OUK AKOUETE.] --
makes us wonder just what text you have been looking at: BOTH verbs
(although the present-tense form BLEPETE is not from the same Greek
verb-stem, it doe have the same meaning) are given THREE times:
SEE: IDEIN, BLEPETE, EIDAN
HEAR: AKOUSAI, AKOUETE, AKOUETE
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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