Bible Lexicons

The full form in Matthew 6:30 is a survival of the literary language, and must have been nearly obsolete even in cultivated colloquial. It is clear therefore that Luke 12:28 represents Q, whether we read ἀμφιάζει with B or -έζει with the rest : as elsewhere (cf. Cambridge Biblical Essays, p. 485 f.), Luke faithfully preserves a vernacular form which he would not have used in his own writing. For the form with α cf. Vettius Valens p. 64.9 (ἀμφιάσαι), and OGIS 200.24 (Aethiopia, iv/A.D.) ἀμφιάσαντες : Blass (Kühner Gramm..3 ii. p. 366) quotes several instances from post-classical literature, including Plutarch (ἀπημφίαζε) and even Lucian (μεταμφιάσομαι). So ἠμφιασμένον Matthew 11:8 D. The classical aorist appears in Syll 19724 (iii/B.C.) ἀμφιέσας. The back-formation ἀμφιέζω is an obvious first step towards ἀμφιάζω, which shows the influence of the large class of -άζω verbs (so W. Schmid ap. Schweizer Perg., p. 37). But though ε forms are predominantly attested in NT (with significant revolts on the part of B and D—see above), it seems doubtful whether ἀμφιέζω can be confidently claimed for the Κοινή, unless as a local survival. A grammarian in Cramer Anecd. Ox. II. 338 says τὸ μὲν ἀμφιέζω ἐστὶ κοινῶς, τὸ δὲ ἀμφιάζω δωρικόν, ὥσπερ τὸ ὑποπιέζω καὶ ὑποπιάζω. This may be true for πιάζω (q. v.), but the other record is too scanty for much assurance. See Radermacher Gramm., p. 35, and references in Brugmann-Thumb4, p. 78.

 

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