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NASB | Luke 1:56 ¶ And Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her home. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 1:56 ¶ And Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months, and then returned to her home. |
Subject: Greek of Luke 1.36: hosei/about |
Bible Note: Thanks Brad and Tim, I really like this forum and hope to use it and the NASB text in a work I am compiling solely based from historical/chronological details that Luke provides. With Luke, I still always go back to the admitted compilatory nature of this Gospel (1.1-4). I don't see verses 5 through 80 as necessarily one monolithic narrative and so I make the following guesses as a layman based only on the English in NASB (I do not know what the Greek may say to a scholar). I see 1.15-17 as a plausible insertion within narrative 1.5-25; 1.26 as a possible break; 1.46-55 as a plausible insertion at the end of narrative 1.27-55; 1.56 being a probable break/transition; 1.57-79 as a narrative; and 1.80 as a "bookend." That's why I hold out the probability that Mary stayed with Elizabeth until after John was born (I believe Tim Moran is allowing for this too), yet willfully concede that the only rock-solid baseline from which I can proceed would be Bock's statement as amended by me: "Although it's possible, the impression of the [literal] narrative does not fit this interpretation." Brad, where might I find your complete study/exposition of this? Brad and/or Tim, anything more about Alford's supposition that hosei implies a leeway after a certain mentioned point? Is there a similar Hebrew word/phrase which may underlie hosei (I support JSSR's Lukan Priority theory with its attendant supposition of Hebrew vorlages)? Thanks again! -- Rick |