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Mark 8 : 37

EN For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

ES ¿O qué recompensa dará el hombre por su alma?

ZH-HANS 人还能拿什么换生命呢?

ZH-HANT 人還能拿甚麼換生命呢?

Mark 8:36
Mark :
Mark 8:38

Aparato crítico

4 variantes · 3 testigos
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omission Greek NT only
Greek NT γὰρ

The Greek explanatory particle γάρ ('for') has no counterpart in either the Peshitta or the Vulgate, both of which render the rhetorical question asyndetically. Such connective particles are routinely left untranslated in the Syriac and Latin traditions when the logical connection is felt to be self-evident.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT δοῖ
Peshitta ܢܬܠ
Vulgate dabit

Greek δοῖ is an aorist subjunctive (a notable Hellenistic morphology, optative-like), conveying deliberative force; the Peshitta ܢܬܠ is an imperfect/future and the Vulgate dabit a simple future indicative. All three express the deliberative rhetorical question, but the mood and tense differ across the traditions.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT ἀντάλλαγμα
Peshitta ܬܚܠܘܦܐ
Vulgate commutationis

Greek ἀντάλλαγμα and Syriac ܬܚܠܘܦܐ stand as accusative/absolute objects ('an exchange'); the Vulgate commutationis is a partitive genitive ('[something] of exchange'), a subtle Latin syntactic shift that nuances the object as 'a thing of barter' rather than the direct object 'a ransom-price.'

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construction All three attest
Greek NT τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ;
Peshitta ܕܢܦܫܗ
Vulgate pro anima sua

Greek expresses the possessor with an articular genitive phrase (τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ) and the Vulgate with a prepositional phrase plus possessive adjective (pro anima sua); the Peshitta compresses this into a single inflected form ܕܢܦܫܗ bearing a proclitic relative/genitive marker and a pronominal suffix, a typical Syriac economy of expression.