[B-Greek] Humor or a frozen expression? Mk 5.7

William Ross woundedegomusic at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 04:51:09 EDT 2006


Might SE TON QEON be a double accusative and might the point be:

"This is not between you and me Jesus, son of the most high god. [The
demon turns upward to address the god] I am appealing to YOU, the god,
not to beseech me."
Mark 5:7

Luke's version, obviously, is different. If Mark amends Luke, then TON
QEON is explanatory.

William Ross
VGB, Argentina


On 10/1/06, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> TEXT
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> KAI KRACAS FWNHi MEGALHi LEGEI, "TI EMOI KAI SOI, IHSOU hUIE TOU QEOU TOU hUYISTOU?  ORKIZW SE TON QEON MH ME BASANISHiS"
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> And crying out in a loud voice he said, "What have I to do with you [Lit.:  "What to me and to you"], Jesus Son of the most high God?  I implore you by God that you not torment me."
>
> I find this rather ironic that a demon possessing this man would thus beseech Christ in the VERY NAME OF GOD whom he supposedly opposes (I know "KAI TA DAIMONIA PISTEUOUSIN KAI FRISSOUSIN" (Jas 2.19), but that's another passage).  Was the writer being humorous or is this simply a frozen usage in relation to ORKIZW?
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