[B-Greek] How precise is Greek? ( was Matthew 22:34)

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 16:54:51 EST 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I tend to agree with you and Oun, although no one can deny that many times
> simple location is indicated, and may, indeed, be so in this verse.
>
> Nevertheless, it does seem there is one translation, the NLT, that might have
> also been trying to also bring out the idea of purpose.
>
> Matthew 22:34But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees
> with his reply, they met together *to question him again.*
>
>
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> Blue Harris

On this, NET renders it as  'they  assembled together' with a translation
note saying:

      Grk "for the same." That is, for the same purpose that the
Sadducees had of testing Jesus.

Oun Kwon.



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