Re: Mark 8: 12 *EI* DOQHSETAI TH GENEA TAUTHi SHMEION

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Sun Sep 27 1998 - 19:59:59 EDT

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At 10:11 AM 9/26/98 -0400, Edward Hobbs wrote:
 
>What is oddly omitted in Jonathan's summary of the passage is what it
>mostly consists of: recitation of the numbers of loaves, thousands fed,
>and baskets of crumbs, in the two feedings which have just occurred.
>It is immediately after Jesus' insistence on remembering these data, with
>precise numbers tallied, that he asks, "Do you not yet understand?"
>Mark is of course asking the READER, "Don't you understand, even YET?"

I'm sorry, but I *don't* understand, even YET!!! Help me, Edward!!!

Jonathan
 
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Texcel Research
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