Rod: The future optative (e.g. LUSOIMI, AKOUSOIMHN) is commonly enough used
in indirect statements introduced by hOTI or in indirect questions that
would have a future indicative in the direct form of the statement or
question. I won't say that this is definitely being used in Greek of the
same time period that "Mark" is writing, but I think it probably is by
well-educated writers; it certainly is being used in the earlier classical
period, and it certainly is being used again by "Atticists" in the second
century and later.
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