[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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