Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 10:26 - 10:26

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Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 10:26 - 10:26


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Fear them not therefore (mē oun phobēthēte autous). Repeated in Mat 10:28 and Mat 10:31 (mē phobeisthe present middle imperative here in contrast with aorist passive subjunctive in the preceding prohibitions). Note also the accusative case with the aorist passive subjunctive, transitive though passive. See same construction in Luk 12:5. In Mat 10:28 the construction is with apo and the ablative, a translation Hebraism as in Luk 12:4 (Robertson, Grammar of the Greek N.T. in the Light of Historical Research, p. 577).