Bible Lexicons

";come near,"; ";approach,"; is now read by Crönert and Wilcken (see Berichtigungen, p. 126) in P Eleph 18.5 (B.C. 223–22) προσπο [ρε ]ύονται ἀγοράζοντες κτλ. : cf. P Magd 27.6 (B.C. 218) μὴ ἐπιτρέπηι προσπορεύεσθαι, P Par 50.3 (B.C. 159) (= UPZ i. p. 365) Ἀπολλώνιον εἶδον, προσπορεύεταί μοι, P Amh II. 33.17 (c. B.C. 157) τοὺς προσπορευομένους συνηγόρους πρὸς τὰς προσοδικὰς κρίσεις, ";advocates who take up revenue cases"; (Edd.), and from the inscrr. Syll 177 (= .3 344).112 (c. B.C. 303) διὰ τὸ τὰ ἐκ τῶν προσόδων γινόμενα κατὰ χρόνους προσπορεύ [εσθαι ὑμῖν μακροτέρους.

In the NT the verb is used only in Mark 10:35, and is one of many exx. of this writer’s preference for compounds of πορεύομαι : indeed, except in Mark 9:30, he does not use the simple verb at all. As Mark’s Greek culture was manifestly small, Harnack’s thesis in his ";Sayings of Jesus"; as to the connexion between culture and compound verbs cannot pass unchallenged : see further Exp. VII. vii. p. 411 f.