[B-Greek] Acts 26:23

Tony Pope borikayaama_tekiri at sil.org
Wed Jan 12 17:48:28 EST 2011


Iver, might you be confusing MARTUROUMAI (from MARTUREW) and MARTUROMAI 
(separate entry in BDAG and LSJ)? Surely MARTUROMAI doesn't occur often 
enough to make generalizations about possible constructions?

I suspect that MARTUROMAI (the verb in Acts 26.22) is more emotional than 
you allow. (It is not only verbs of wonder that can take this EI, see the 
example with AGANAKTEW in BDAG.) Something like "protest" or "insist" seems 
more appropriate as a translation. Most English versions make no distinction 
from MARTUREW, but Weymouth has "solemnly exhorted".

However, some of the commentators (e.g. Jacquier, Lake & Cadbury) say that 
the EI is used in Acts 26.23 to express the concept that the proposition 
(that the Messiah had to suffer, etc) is something that is debated, denied 
by some and has to be argued for.

Tony Pope

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Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org wrote on Wed Jan 12 06:47:05 EST 2011

All the verbs cited in BDAG above can be grouped as expressions of wonder 
except
MARTUROMAI, so I would suggest that Acts 26:23 may be misplaced in BDAG.
MARTUROMAI always connects with hOTi or an infinitive with acc. as far as I 
know
(when it has an object clause). 




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