[B-Greek] resend: Matt 13:17

Ross Assink ross.assink at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 10:39:25 EST 2009


I apologize for my ambiguity.  My question is, why did the author use BLEPETE  once and IDEIN/EIDAN the other times?  Is there some nuance to BLEPW that is not found in EIDW?

thank you,
Ross
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Conrad 
  To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Cc: Ross Assink 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [B-Greek] resend: Matt 13:17



  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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