From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Tue Apr 13 1999 - 22:27:06 EDT
At 10:01 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>In Mk 3.5 the participle periblepsamenos is in the middle voice, but I'm not
>sure why it's not active instead. I understand the middle to express
>actions done for or unto oneself, which thereby undercuts the dichotomy of
>subject and object. I can only make sense of the middle here in that Jesus
>was looking around so as to be on guard, thus looking out for himself.
>
>Thanks,
however, since the word is a participle- and in true "particpular" (!)
fashion, the voice is "lost" (or maybe simply set aside) in favor of an
emphasis on "time" (or maybe duration). Thus, something like- "and looking
around at them... while angered", etc.
best,
jim
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