[B-Greek] EIS in Matthew 10:41-42
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 13 15:57:18 EDT 2008
On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Wieland Willker wrote:
> I would say that EIS is simply used as EN here. This happens
> in Koine Greek.
I was tempted to also jump to this conclusion before I looked at the
evidence from the LXX where EIS [TO] ONOMA is somewhat rare (1Chr.
22:5 Neh. 6:13 1Mac. 13:29 2Mac. 8:4 3Mac. 2:9 Wis. 18:12 Is. 55:13)
by comparison to EN [TWi] ONOMATI which is much more frequent.
Turner (Syntax pp.155,166) and Moule (Idiom Book, p.79) do not equate
EN [TWi] ONOMATI with EIS [TO] ONOMA. Turner (p155) reads EIS [TO]
ONOMA as causal "because of" or "for the sake of" and Moule "because
he is a prophet".
Elizabeth Kline
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