Luke 9:27 wrote:λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ἀληθῶς, εἰσίν τινες τῶν αὐτοῦ ἑστηκότων οἳ οὐ μὴ γεύσωνται θανάτου ἕως ἂν ἴδωσιν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.
I was surprised by the use of αὐτοῦ to mean 'here', but Plummer was helpful. I'm posting this partly in case it's interesting to someone else, and partly because I'm curious about what this means about the origin of αὐτός and its historical development.
Plummer wrote:For αὐτοῦ, "here," comp. Acts xviii. 19,̓ Mt. xxvi. 36. Mt. and Mk. have ὧδε,
Acts 18:19 wrote:κατήντησαν δὲ εἰς Ἔφεσον, κἀκείνους κατέλιπεν αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν συναγωγὴν διελέξατο τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις.
Matthew 26:36 wrote:Τότε ἔρχεται μετ’ αὐτῶν ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς χωρίον λεγόμενον Γεθσημανὶ, καὶ λέγει τοῖς μαθηταῖς· Καθίσατε αὐτοῦ ἕως οὗ ἀπελθὼν ἐκεῖ προσεύξωμαι.
Abbott-Smith wrote:αὐτοῦ adv., prop. neut. gen. of αὐτός, [in LXX for פֹּה, בָּזֶה ;]
there: Mt 26:36, Mk 6:33, WH, mg., Lk 9:27, Ac 15:34, WH, mg., R, mg., Ac 18:19 21:4 .†
BDAG wrote:αὐτοῦ neut. gen of αὐτός functioning as deictic adv. designating a position relatively near or far. ... here καθίσατε αὐ (Gen 22:5) Mt 26:36; Mk 6:33 v.1; Luk 9:27; there Ac 15:34 v.1; 19:19; 21:4
This makes me wonder about the historical development of αὐτός, I assume it originated as a very general deictic indicator? Was it more commonly used to mean 'here' or 'there' in earlier Greek?
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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