From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 11 1998 - 15:15:46 EST
On Sun 11 Jan 98 (18:01:05 +0800), scox@chinaonline.com.cn.net wrote:
> Another point: PROEFHTEUSEN DE KAI TOUTOIS is prophecying
> "to whom" exactly? - our friends the ARESTES PLANHTAI??
>
> If AV and NIV are right it should be PROEFHTEUSEN PERI
> TOUTWN shouldn't it?
>
> cf: Matt 15:7 KALWS EPROFHTEUSEN PERI UMWN
> Matt 26:68 PROFHTEUSON HMIN
Steven:
I think you are right about the targets of the prophecy. It was not however
a prophecy "about" PERI these ARESTES PLANHTAI, but a prophecy "unto" them
TOUTOIS (simple dative; preposition redundant). PROFHTEUW TINI, to prophesy
to someone; PERI TINOS, about something.
JA Bengel writes (Gnomon, E.T.) "PROEFHTEUSE) /acted as a prophet/.
--KAI TOUTOIS, /even to these/) not only respecting these, and not to the
antediluvians only; for he says, /all/."
My GNT (Nestle-Kilpatrick) gives "EPROF. B*(aleph), R] PROEF. rell [sigma]"
in the App. Crit. The preferred text has EPROFHTEUSEN. Is this a phenomenon
common in NT Greek, rather like separable and inseparable prefixes with
German verbs? Is PROFHTEUW optionally treated as a compound of PRO + FHMI?
I don't suppose it affects the meaning.
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