[B-Greek] Mat 8:23 Dative Absolute? (Joseph Justiss)
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 09:41:49 EDT 2010
>In English and Greek, a relative pronoun may be the object of a
>preposition. This is not the case in Hebrew where, as a rule, the
>relative pronoun (asher) does not occur as the object of a
>preposition. "The ground on which you are standing" has to be rendered
>"the ground that you are standing on it." I'm failing to see this
>construction in Matt 8:23. Carl, can you clarify where you see it? Or
>were you thinking of some other construction?
>
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>
>Donald R. Vance
shalom Donald,
Last year I had halfway been thinking that we might be seeing you on
the very lake come next week. Ah well, not to be, and space is full.
On Matthew 8.23 KAI EMBANTI AYTW . . . HKOLOYQHSAN AYTW
looks like good Greek to me, 'cepting that AYTW wasn't necessary.
>From patterns that I've seen in the synoptics, I would expect to see
a parallel in Luke if this potenial redundant AYTW was a Semitism
from a source. The structure is not coming from Luke, whose story,
incidently, looks quite Semitic. So I would attribute the dative
EMBANTI to Matthew as he apparently epitomised the story as
seen in Mark and Luke. The AYTW is then most probably Matthew's
Greek.
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