[B-Greek] APOKRITHEIS in Matthew 28:5

Farrell Till jftill at mailaka.net
Sat Mar 17 23:11:56 EST 2007


TILL
Forwarded as received.


Hi Harold,

I -- and I'm sure many others -- have respected your opinion over the
years on B-Greek.  Why not also copy or forward your comments on the
non-verbal aspects of this to me and other interested B-Greekers...?  We
would appreciate it!

Thanks, and Best regards,
David

D.W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany


Harold Holmyard wrote:
 > Farrell Till wrote:
 >
 >> A Bible group that I participate in has been discussing differences in
 >> Matthew's and John's resurrection narratives. A key concern during the
 >> discussions has been why John said that Mary Magdalene went to the tomb,
 >> found it empty, and then ran to tell Peter and "the other disciple" that
 >> the body had been stolen, whereas Matthew said that Mary  M was one of the
 >> women who went to the tomb, saw an angel descend, roll away the stone, and
 >> tell the women that Jesus had risen, after which the women, who would have
 >> included Mary M, left the tomb, encountered Jesus, and even touched and
 >> worshiped him.
 >>
 >> The two accounts seem incompatible, but a solution has emerged during the
 >> discussions.
 >>
 >
 > HH: The two accounts are quite compatible, but I will share with you
 > off-line about it. I don't think the answer is in the verb you discuss.
 >
 > Yours,
 > Harold Holmyard
 >
 >>   This solution hinges on some lexicographical claims that the
 >> aorist tense of APOKRINOMAI conveys the idea of "answering
 >> later."  Moulton's,  Perschbacher's, and Wigram's Analytical Greek 
Lexicons
 >> have been cited to support this solution.  All of them give the same
 >> explication of this verb.
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>> APOKRINOMAI (§ 27. rem. 3) aor. 1, APOKRINAMHN  "and, later, 
also"  (pass.
 >>> form) APEKRIQHN (i, fut. (pass. form) APOKRIQHSOMAI (APOKRINW to 
separate,
 >>>
 >>>
 >> >from APO & KRINW to answer, Mat. 3.15, et al.; in N. T. to respond to
 >>
 >>
 >>> certain present circumstances, to avow, Mat. 11.25 et al.
 >>>
 >>>
 >> Matthew 28:5 contains the aorist 1 participle APOKRIQEIS, so on that basis
 >> some have theorized that this verse should have been translated "And later
 >> answering, the angel said...."  This translation of the verse would allow
 >> for a gap or delay between the angel's descent and his speaking to the
 >> women, so possibly Mary Magdalene could have left the tomb site before the
 >> angel announced the resurrection and gone to find Peter and John.  This,
 >> then, would possibly explain why she thought that the body had been stolen
 >> even though Matthew's account says that the angel told the women that 
Jesus
 >> had risen and that they then encountered Jesus personally.
 >>
 >> A major problem, however, is that we can find no Bible versions in either
 >> English or French that translated APOKRITHEIS this way in Matthew 28:5 or
 >> anywhere else in the New Testament.  Is there any basis for thinking that
 >> APOKRITHEIS in this verse did communicate the idea of a significant time
 >> delay?  Are there any places in the NT where APOKRITHEIS was translated
 >> "later answered" or its equivalent.
 >>
 >> If not, why do you suppose that Wigram, Moulton, and Perschbacher have 
said
 >> that APOKRITHEIS in the aorist tense could mean "and, later," or "also."
 >>
 >> Another problem that some of us have wondered about is how conjunctive
 >> ("and" or "also") or adverbial ("later") terms could properly define a
 >> verbal  word.  None of these terms convey concepts of verbal action.
 >>
 >> Some of us have elementary knowledge of Koine Greek but nothing that could
 >> be considered scholarly.  Any input that the group could give us would be
 >> be
 >>
 >> J. F. Till (ret.)
 >> jftill at mailaka.net
 >>
 >>
 >
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