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To: marshmallow
Ummmmm, so what do the autographs of the Greek say, using Majority Text Principle?
11 posted on 12/07/2017 5:25:53 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: Salvavida
Manuscripts, not autographs. All the autographs are, so far as we known, long gone. Some Greek verb forms don't really have close correspondence with a particular English form. The key verb here is a subjunctive aorist, and we don't have an aorist--and neither does Latin. That the negative is μὴ is of some significance as well--but I will want to consult grammars before commenting further. The verb itself means literally to bear or cary inward, and the prepositional prefix indicating inward appears two words later as a free-standing prefix, so there is a real emphasis on the inward aspect. I'll try to check the best witness into the Hebrew tomorrow.
17 posted on 12/07/2017 5:33:02 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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