From: Michael Holmes (holmic@bethel.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 17:47:47 EST
Jim,
Take a look at 1 Cor 3:16-17, together with 6:19
Mike Holmes
Bethel College
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From: "Jim Darden" <jim@dardenhome.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Re: Second Plural
> That's a pretty good one but a careful reading, as you point out, can
clear
> up the ambiguity. I'm looking for specific examples where, in our modern
> English translations, the first/second plural is *impossible* to discern.
> Lk 22:31-32 (thanks Carl) meets this criterion.
>
> Jim Darden
> Arlington, WA
>
> >Jim:
> >Does the story of the mother of the sons of Zebedee ( Mt. 20:20 ) meet
your
> >criterion?
>
> >In the English of the RSV
> > >> 20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zeb'edee came up to him, with
> >her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. 20:21
And
> >he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these
> >two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left,
in
> >your kingdom." 20:22 But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are
> >asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to
> >him, "We are able." <<
> >In v.22, "you" is ambiguous, is it the mother or the sons Jesus is
> >addressing? In the Greek it is immediately clear from OUK OIDATE that it
is
> >the sons, but in English this is only made clear when it is established
> >>that "they" said to him.
>
>
>
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