[B-Greek] Matt 26.26 give thanks for what?

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 05:22:01 EST 2008


> ESQIONTWN DE AUTWN LABWN hO IHSOUS ARTON
> KAI EULOGHSAS EKLASEN KAI DOUS TOIS MAQHTAIS EIPEN
> LABETE FAGETE TOUTO ESTIN TO SWMA MOU
>
> The EULOGHSAS seems somewhat vague to me. ...
> Mitch Larramore

You're doing fine, it should be vagued,
because it's an item that is only known culturally.
In fact, first century Jewish readers knew the words and would
have understood/supplied:
"barux atta ADONAI     ha-motsi leHem min ha-arets."
blessed are you O LORD   who brings forth bread from the earth.

the clue is the word "blessed" without any object. The implied
object was the "Lord".

In fact, other texts like Mark 8:7 are suspect because they supply
accusative objects.
'Fish' had no specific blessing, but one could optionally say,
barux atta ADONAI     she-ha-kol nihya bidvaro
"blessed are you O OLORD   that everything came into being through his word."
The wording of this last blessing underlies some of the wording of
John's prologue, of course. 1:3-4

ERRWSQE
IWANHS


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