Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 8:9 - 8:9

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Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 8:9 - 8:9


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Asked (epērōtōn). Imperfect of eperōtaō (epi and erōtaō) where Mar 4:10 has ērōtōn (uncompounded imperfect), both the tense and the use of epi indicate eager and repeated questions on the part of the disciples, perhaps dimly perceiving a possible reflection on their own growth.

What this parable might be (tis hautē eiē hē parabolē). A mistranslation, What this parable was (or meant). The optative eiē is merely due to indirect discourse, changing the indicative estin (is) of the direct question to the optative eiē of the indirect, a change entirely with the writer or speaker and without any change of meaning (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1043f.).