Re: the sense of ENOXOS ESTIN (Mk 3:29)

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 06:54:13 EST

<x-rich>At 9:35 PM -0600 12/5/99, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:

>In Mk 3:29 the author of Mark has Jesus proclaiming that anyone who

>blasphemes against the Holy Spirit OUK EXEI AFESIN EIS TON AIWNA,
ALLA

>ENOXOS ESTIN AIWNIOU hAMARTHMATOS.

>

>I am curious to know if the expression ENOXOS ESTIN is (a) idiomatic
and

>(b) drawn from the law court and/or bears any particular legal

>significance.

>

>Is it a common phrase? Does it have Classical, secular Hellenistic,

>and/or LXX precedent. If so, in what contexts?

>

>I'd look up the expression myself -- but I'm too pressed for time
right

>now.

Jeffrey: do you find yourself getting e-mail from high school students
asking for help with a homework assignment?--e.g. "what do you think of
the character of Oedipus in Sophocles' play?" or" What would you say is
characteristic of Greek tragedy?" or "Would you tell me how you'd
translate this Latin poem?" The following is what I got in a couple
minutes from the Perseus LSJ entry, and I think it offers sufficient
clues to your questions:

enochos, on, <color><param>FFFF,0000,FFFF</param>= enechomenos</color>,
held in, bound by, toiautais doxais
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aristot. Met. 1009b17</color>; tais
eirmenais blabais IDEM=<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aristot.
Pol. 1337b17</color>; [ethesi gerontikois] Apollod.Com.7.2.

2. c. gen., connected with, koilis Hp.Ep.23.

II. as law-term, liable to, subject to, nomois, dikais,
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Plat. Laws 869b</color>; ti
graphi <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Xen. Mem. 1.2.64</color>;
ti krisei Ev.Matt.5.22; t™i hork™i PRyl.82.14 (ii A. D.), etc.; tois
epitimiois tou phonou <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Antiph.
4.1.6</color>; zmiais <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Lys.
14.9</color>; tais arais <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Dem.
19.201</color>; desm™i IDEM=<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Dem.
51.4</color>; hork™i PHib.1.65.22 (iii B. C.), etc.; e. anoiais liable
to the imputation of it, <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Isoc.
8.7</color>; hamartmasi <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aeschin.
2.146</color>; tois aischistois epitdeumasin
IDEM=<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aeschin. 1.185</color>.

2. enochos pseudomarturiois liable to action for . .,
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Plat. Theaet. 148b</color>: c.
gen., e. tou phonou <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Antiph.
6.46</color>; biai™n, lipotaxiou (sc. diki, graphi),
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Plat. Laws 914e</color>,
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Lys. 14.5</color>; hierosulias LXX
2 Ma.13.6; moicheias Vett. Val.au=LXX 117.10; e. thanatou liable to the
penalty of death, D.S.27.4, Ev.Matt.26.66 (but thanat™i Wilcken
ti=Ev.Matt. Chr.13.11 (i A. D.)): c. inf., e. est™ apotisaiCIG2832.8
(Aphrodisias).

3. less freq. with Preps., e. en tois autois Decr.ap.And.1.79; peri
tauta <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aristot. Rh. 1384b2</color>;
enochoi ent™ ens Athanaian IG4.554 (Argos, vi/v B. C.).

4. guilty, liable to the penalty for, e. t™i phon™i
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Antiph. 1.11</color>,
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aristot. Pol. 1269a3</color>, cf.
ti=<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Aristot. Rh. 1380a3</color>:
abs., <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Antiph.
4.1.1</color>,au=<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Antiph.
6.17</color>, <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Plat. Soph.
261a</color>, etc.

b. of property, subject to liability, PMasp.312.86 (vi A. D.).

Carl W. Conrad

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