[B-Greek] resend: Matt 13:17
Tim Lewis
tim.lewis.au at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 17:49:36 EST 2009
I agree with Carl that the meaning is the same. I suppose that the variation
here may simply be for the sake of variation (more elegant?), especially as
it appears amongst poetic speech.
Tim Lewis
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From: "Ross Assink" <ross.assink at gmail.com>
To: <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] resend: Matt 13:17
>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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