Re: rel. pron. in Mt 21:35

From: David Moore (dvdmoore@dcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us)
Date: Mon Oct 02 1995 - 12:58:10 EDT


On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 10:01 AM 10/2/95, David Moore wrote:
> [I won't repeat the entire lengthy correspondence, with one exception]
>
> > There is a factor that has not been taken into consideration in
> >either Carl's analysis or in that presented by Mark Durie, but it is
> >key to understanding this passage.
> >
> > Philip is correct in noting that v. 36 is a continuation of the
> >thoughts begun in v. 35, but he is not correct in thinking that the
> >participle LABONTES should agree with the subject of the following
> >verb. The relationship indicated is one of time, not of personal
> >identity. The aorist tense of the participle LABONTES indicates here
> >that the incidents of mistreatment of the owner's messengers had
> >already taken place when he sent other of his servants.
> >
> > This factor is integral to the story of the parable, since
> >finally, and with full knowledge of the tenants actions, the owner
> >sends his own son (v. 37).
>
> Actually I think this reading of LABONTES _is_ there in my original
> response to Phil, viz.:
>
> > ... I think the
> > sense of the construction might best be conveyed thus: "And the
> > vine-dressers took the slaves, of whom they flayed one, killed one, and
> > stoned one." It is a common narrative device in Greek to use a participle
> > (or two or three) in the aorist and then an indicative to indicate a
> > sequence of actions where English would prefer to use coordinate
> > indicatives, as I have done in effect in my version above.
>
        You are quite right. Pardon my oversight in not noting it in my
previous post.

David L. Moore Southeastern Spanish District
Miami, Florida of the Assemblies of God
dvdmoore@dcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Department of Education



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