Re: Matthew (Was: POLLOI in Luke 1:1 (long))

Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Sun, 16 Nov 97 13:47:40

On Sat 15 Nov 97 (22:31:36 +1100), bwpowers@eagles.bbs.net.au wrote:
>áSo I reckon the POLLOI of Luke 1:1 refers to a multitude which no man
>ácan number (because we have no other information), ordinary people who
>áwere intensely interested in the message of the ministry and teaching
>áof Jesus and who collected the PARADOSIS about these things, in oral
>áand written form, Aramaic and Greek, and who were making individual and
>áseparate efforts to assemble all of this into some kind of order for
>áthemselves when Luke decided, as he tells us, to take a hand himself.

Dear Ward,

Thank you very much for your considered response, of which the above is your
conclusion. And thank you for the book reference (Albright & Mann).

Yours ever,

-- 
 Revd Ben Crick, BA CF
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