Luke 5:19
Posted: January 10th, 2020, 12:45 pm
In Luke 5:19 the Greek Editions (NA28 and Robinson Pierpoint) have
και μη ευροντες ποιας εισενεγκωσιν ...
In the Manuscripts (checking 342 Mss. of the INTF) I found the following variants for ποιας:
ποιας : By far the majority
πωσ : 85 x
ποθεν: 23 x
δια ποιας οδου : 13 x
δια ποιας : 4 x
ποιας οδου : 17 x
ποιας εις οδου : 1x
δια ποιας θυρας : 1 x
The Mss. with the variants of ποιας ((δια) ποιας (οδου/θυρας)) are all quite late (12-16th century).
1: ποθεν seems strange to me, meaning „whence“ (local; causal), In this context: People are looking, how to bring the paralyzed man into the building.
2: ποιας: Zerwick, A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament comments:
"ποιας (sc. οδου) as: indir. interr. 'by what way': one of the rare NT examples of the gen. of place
"within which" (cf temporal νυκτος; 'by night' ...)“
Can one presume, that the variant (δια) ποιας οδου just on linguistic grounds could be the origin of the (elliptic) variant ποιας? (without regarding other textcritical reasons to make another choice!)
Regards
Jean
και μη ευροντες ποιας εισενεγκωσιν ...
In the Manuscripts (checking 342 Mss. of the INTF) I found the following variants for ποιας:
ποιας : By far the majority
πωσ : 85 x
ποθεν: 23 x
δια ποιας οδου : 13 x
δια ποιας : 4 x
ποιας οδου : 17 x
ποιας εις οδου : 1x
δια ποιας θυρας : 1 x
The Mss. with the variants of ποιας ((δια) ποιας (οδου/θυρας)) are all quite late (12-16th century).
1: ποθεν seems strange to me, meaning „whence“ (local; causal), In this context: People are looking, how to bring the paralyzed man into the building.
2: ποιας: Zerwick, A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament comments:
"ποιας (sc. οδου) as: indir. interr. 'by what way': one of the rare NT examples of the gen. of place
"within which" (cf temporal νυκτος; 'by night' ...)“
Can one presume, that the variant (δια) ποιας οδου just on linguistic grounds could be the origin of the (elliptic) variant ποιας? (without regarding other textcritical reasons to make another choice!)
Regards
Jean