From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 09:11:20 EST
At 08:58 PM 1/7/98 -0500, Jim West wrote:
>have any recent studies been done on "ekeinos" as a derogatory? (i.e., in
>certain biblical texts ekeinos is used as a scornful "that one..." etc, If
>you listen carefully you can almost hear the venom drip from the lip).
This is not exactly recent...here are quotes on contemptuous EKEINOS and
contemptuous hOUTOS in Robertson's Massive Yellow Tome:
The Contemptuous use of hOUTOS (p. 697)
It is merely one variation of the purely deictic idiom due to the relation
of the persons in question. It is rather common in the N.T. So in Mt. 26:61
hOUTOS EFH we find a "fling" of reproach as the witnesses testify against
Jesus. Cf. Mt 26:71 (parallel Lu 22:56 KAI hOUTOS), the maid about Peter;
Mk 2:7, the Pharisees about Jesus; Lu 15:2, Jo 6:42; 9:24; 12:34; Ac 7:40,
Jews about Moses; 19:26; 28:4, about Paul; Lu 15:30, the elder son at the
younger; 18:11, the Pharisee at the publican, etc. A striking example
occurs in Ac 5:28.
The Contemptuous Use of Ekeinos (p. 707)
It appears unmistakably in Jo 9:28 SU MAQHTHS EI EKEINOU. It may also exist
in Jo 19:21. Cf. the solemn repetition of EKEINOS with hO ANQRWPOS in Mt
26:24, as well as the change from hOUTOS in verse 23.
Jonathan
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