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John 2:4, Supposed Semitisms, and the Usefulness of TLG

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

Commentators on John 2:4 almost universally hold that Jesus here employs a Semitism or Hebraism with antecedents in the OT. In this post, I question this consensus by adducing a generally unnoticed parallel from Epictetus. John 2:4 Here’s the text

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