[B-Greek] APHGGELH and LEGONTWN in Luke 8:20

Daniel Buck bucksburg at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 5 17:34:38 EST 2011


I've got a grammar question here.

In Luke 8:20, it is said of Jesus APHGGELH DE AUTW (And it was reported to him). 
The construction of APHGGELH is singular, but does that assume a singular person 
doing the reporting? OOW, if several people were saying it, would APHGGELH have 
to take a plural form?

To complicate matters, most manuscripts add LEGONTWN (some further add OTI). 
This is in the plural, thus answering my question--or so it appears. 

But does the omission of LEGONTWN (saying) only make the plurality of the 
speaker(s) less blatant, or remove all certainty? Any further speculation, of 
course, should be confined to a different list.

Daniel Buck


      


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