[b-greek] Re: Backing up to Friday

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 10:39:28 EST


At 1:33 PM +0000 12/2/00, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Luke 24:21b
>
>ALLA GE KAI SUN PASIN TOUTOIS
>TRITHN TAUTHN hHMERAN AGEI AF' OU TAUTA EGENETO
>
>In light of the fact that these words were spoken on a Sunday,
>would the following be the most natural sense in which to
>understand this passage:
>
>TAUTHN hHMERAN is Sunday, which is day number 3 (TRITHN).
>Hence, Saturday would be day number 2. And that, by Luke's
>reckoning, would place Friday as the day all
>these things (whatever they were) happened.
>
>Any grammatical comments worth noting here?

This is simply ancient practice of counting days inclusively: Friday is day
1, Saturday day 2, and Sunday day 3. This is standard ancient usage. That's
why Friday is "Good" Friday and why Easter is on Sunday. I suppose that may
not answer your question, but if it doesn't, then I don't understand what
your question is.


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