[B-Greek] Mark 7:18-19
Leonard Jayawardena
leonardj at live.com
Mon Nov 2 20:46:48 EST 2009
George F. Somsel wrote:
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If you understand KAQARIZWN ... as referring back to the implicit subject in LEGEI as you appear to do, then KAQARIZWN PANTA TA BRWMATA must be the writer's comment rather than being contained in the quoted speech since LEGEI is itself a speech introduction formula.
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LJ: I didn't say that KAQARIZWN PANTA TA BRWMATA was contained in the quoted speech. Note that I simplified the passage into the following form:
KAI LEGEI AUTOIS, "...?", KAQARIZWN PANTA TA BRWMATA.
What I meant was that the sentence flows smoothly into KAQARIZWN PANTA TA BRWMATA if you ignore the length of the quoted speech.
Don't we have a similar structure in Mark 10:2?
KAI PROSELQONTES FARISAIOI EPHRWTWN AUTON EI EXESTIN ANDRI GUNAIKA APOLUSAI, PEIRAZONTES AUTON.
Isn't PEIRAZONTES AUTON syntactically performing the same function in the above passage as KAQARIZWN ... does in Mark 7:19? So if KAQARIZWN ... is an "editorial comment" then, by the same token, PEIRAZONTES AUTON, too, is an editorial comment. If not, why not?
What "Mark" meant by "purifying all foods" is that by what Jesus said he declared all foods, whether eaten with washed or unwashed hands, to be clean as they cannot transmit any impurity to man in the higher spiritual sense. And that is exactly the purpose or consequence of Jesus' quoted speech. So how is it an editorial comment? I think an editorial comment is properly something like Matthew 24:15, "let the reader understand."
Leonard Jayawardena
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