Re: Houtos in Matt 5:19

To: Richard Walker <Richard.Walker@cs.anu.edu.au>, b-greek@virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Houtos in Matt 5:19
From: Andrew Crouch <acrouch@acs.bu.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 May 94 11:00:55 EDT
In-Reply-To: <199405070948.TAA23724@barnard.anu.edu.au>; from "Richard Walker" at May 7, 94 7:48 pm

> 
> Thanks to those who replied so far.  But maybe I didn't 
> explain myself enough.  
> 
> The NASB includes the connotation that *by* breaking 
> a command, this *teaches* others to do the same.  
> In other words, if someone sees me breaking a command, 
> they think to themselves `He calls himself a Christian, 
> and he is doing that - it must be OK' and then they 
> go and follow my example.  
> 
> The NIV's translation simply does not include this 
> connotation.  It talks about breaking a command 
> *and* teaching others to break it - two separate things.  
> 
> Which is right?  
> 
> Richard.  
> 

Without getting onto Carl Conrad's limb :) , it seems to me that the
coordination of the two verbs with KAI (compare 19b where the same
verbs are coordinate) makes it unwise to read in a subordinate
relationship of the sort you suggest. If Matt had intended this he
could easily have used a participial construction or at least put
OUTWS before DIDAXHi where it would be clearer it wasn't taking the
place of the object of the vb.

Andrew Crouch

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Re: Houtos in Matt 5:19

From: Richard Walker <Richard.Walker@cs.anu.edu.au>