[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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