[B-Greek] πᾶσαι = only two in Matt. 13.56?
Alastair Haines
haines at alastairs.com
Wed Mar 9 01:43:44 EST 2011
Thanks for the question. This was new to me.
Mark Lightman prompted me to check.
BDAG
PAS, PASA, PAN 1d
subst.--a. PANTES, PASAI all, everyone
(even when only two are involved = both;
Appian, Bell. Civ. 2, 27 s105 [Caesar and Pompey])
Something seems amis with the reference (or my reading of it).
I cannot find the word at
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0231%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D15%3Asection%3D105
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From: "Mark Goodacre" <goodacre at duke.edu>
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Subject: [B-Greek] πᾶσαι = only two in Matt. 13.56?
> Matt. 13.56: καὶ αἱ ἀδελφαὶ αὐτοῦ οὐχὶ πᾶσαι πρὸς ἡμᾶς εἰσιν;
>
> KAI hAI ADELFAI AUTOU OUCI PASAI PROS hHMAS EISIN;
>
> This is usually translated "And are not *all* his sisters with us?"
> However, Richard Bauckham suggests that "Although Matthew refers to
> 'all his sisters', we cannot tell whether there were more than two,
> since Greek can use 'all' for only two" ("The Relatives of Jesus",
> Themelios 21.2 (January 1996): 18-21 (18)). I think it would be odd,
> though, to read this verse as suggesting two sisters only. The usual
> translation of PAS and the emphasis here suggest to me a rhetorical
> "all" rather than "both". Can anyone think of good examples of PAS
> meaning "both"?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
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