Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 1:36

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 1:36 - 1:36

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 1:36 - 1:36

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36. ἡ συγγενής σου. “thy kinswoman.” What the actual relationship was we do not know. It is a mistake to infer positively from this, as Ewald does, that Mary too was of the tribe of Levi, for except in the case of heiresses there was free intermarriage between the tribes (Exo 6:23; Jdg 17:7; Philo De Monarch. II. 11; Jos. Vit. 1). At the same time the tradition of the Aaronic descent of Mary is as old as the “Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs” in the second century. The reading συγγενὶς is a later form of the word. Γήρει is the Ionic form of the dative of γῆρας. Hellenistic Greek contained forms drawn from various dialects. See Winer, p. 73.