[B-Greek] Adverbs
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Mar 30 15:04:38 EDT 2011
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From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: "Iver Larsen" <iver_larsen at sil.org>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Adverbs
On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Iver Larsen wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
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> This question originally related to John 1:41 which in the NA reads:
> εὑρίσκει οὗτος πρῶτον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τὸν ἴδιον Σίμωνα
> hEURISKEI hOUTOS PRWTON TON ADELFON TON IDION SIMWNA
> This one (he) first finds his (own/real) brother, Simon.
>
> The original hand of Aleph wrote πρῶτος PTWTOS. It was corrected later in the
> Aleph ms, and it has very little mss support.
But the Majority Text has PRWTOS. Tischendorf has it too.
IL: I suppose this is not really the place to argue textual criticism, but let
me copy from Metzger:
"The reading πρῶτος, attested by א* and the later Greek tradition, means that
Andrew was the first follower of Jesus who made a convert. The reading πρῶτον,
which means that the first thing that Andrew did after having been called was to
find his brother, was preferred by a majority of the Committee because of its
early and diversified support (P66, 75 אc B Θ f 1 f 13 cop arm geo al)." The NA
apparatus includes A among the supporters of PRWTON.
The suggestion that Andrew was the first follower of Jesus to make a convert
just not fit with hEURISKEI in initial position nor does it fit with the
sentence as a whole. Both internal and external reasoning strongly favours
PRWTON.
Before I studied all the occurrences of PRWTOS and PRWTON in the NT I was
unclear about the difference, but it became much clearer afterwards. I can only
recommend the exercise, and it would be nice to go beyond the NT, but there are
sufficient examples within the NT to give a good feel for the usage.
Iver Larsen
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