[b-greek] Re: masc/feminine plural participle

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 19:42:04 EDT


At 7:24 PM -0400 4/10/02, richard smith wrote:
>Someone had suggested that the fellow walker with Cleopas on the road to
>Emmaus might be Cleopas' wife. The surmise was based on John 19:25.
>
>My question concerns whether the masculine participle in Luke 24:33 would
>allow the possibility for the antecedents to be husband and wife. Or would
>a male and female require a neuter modifier?
>
>Lk 24:33 KAI ANASTANTES AUTHi THi hWRA hUPESTREYAN EIS IEROUSALHM

I think the participle, though masculine in form, could be used of a man
and a woman together, but it seems to me that this is quite hypothetical. I
wouldn't base any guesses on such an understanding of the fellow walker in
Lk 24:33 on a Johannine text such as that, although, as I've said already,
there's nothing grammatically in the participle that rules that possibility
out.
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