From: Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 28 1998 - 10:35:17 EST
The choice of the verb SKULLW is pretty great too--sounding as it does like
SKYLAX "pup" and other doggish words--shaggy or not.
Mary
At 06:08 AM 1/28/98 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>Nichael, this is wonderful! I'm just puzzled by one thing: the form
>PROSPARASKEUASONTAI--as a future tense that has to be middle rather than
>passive (it's not PROSPARASKEUASQHSONTAI), so it ought to mean "teeth will
>provide themselves." Now that's even MORE wonderful!
>
>At 7:53 PM -0600 1/27/98, Nichael Cramer wrote:
>> ELEGEN. 'RABBI, hO LEGETAI ME(QER)MHNEUOMENON DIDASKALE
>> PWS DUNHSETAI TAUTA GENES(QAI), EAN WSIN ANODONTES;
>> APOKRIQEIS DE hO IHSOUS EIPEN. OLIGOPISTE, MH SKULLOU. EI
>> ARA TINWN hUSTERHSONTAI, hOI ODONTES PROSPARASKEUASONTAI.
>> [NOTE***]
>>
>>Which is accompanied by a footnote reading:
>>
>> This may be translated thus: "And behold, a certain one of
>> his disciples standing by said unto him: 'Rabbi (which is
>> to say, being interpretted, Master), how can these things
>> be, if they be toothless?' And Jesus answered and said:
>> 'O thou of little faith, trouble not thyself; if haply
>> they will be lacking any, teeth will be provided.'" [p443]
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>Carl W. Conrad
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Mary Pendergraft
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Wake Forest University
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