[b-greek] Re: law prophesied

From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 05:24:04 EST


On Tue 31 Oct 2000 (19:50:35), wleman@mcn.net wrote:
> In Mt. 11:13 what is the syntactic relationship between neuter hO NOMOS
> and the 3rd person plural verb EPROFHTEUSAN? Is "the law" simply a case of
> metonymy here (law standing for the authors of the law), with gender
> agreement suspended or based on the semantic, rather than syntactic, role
> of hO NOMOS? Or is hO NOMOS not even considered in the person agreement
> with this verb, but just going along for the ride with 3rd person plural
> hOI PROFHTAI in the conjoined KAI noun phrase?

 Dear Wayne,

 You've answered your own question. The subject of EPROFHTEUSAN is the
 complex group [PANTES GAR hOI PROFHTAI KAI hO NOMOS hEWS IWANNOU]. Treat
 the KAI as a Boolean "AND" if you will: "going along for the ride".

 "The Prophets" is Hebrew /HaNN:Bi'iYM/, the Former and the Latter Prophets of
 the Old Testament; "The Law" is Hebrew /HaTToWRaH/, the Pentateuch or the
 Books of Moses. "The Law and the Prophets" also includes Hebrew /HaKK:TuBiYM/,
 The Writings, i.e. the Poetry and Wisdom literature of the O.T.

 So the author of Matthew means the whole O.T. corpus, right up to and
 including John the Baptist. That would probably include what we call the
 Pseudepigrapha as well (such as the Books of Enoch, etc, apparently cited in 2
 Peter and Jude).

 HTH
 Ben

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