Guards? (was Re: Argument from silence)

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Hello, Walt!

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WALT

>Further, Mathew is the only writer that voices the concern that Jesus may

>"rise again"(Mt 27;62-66). As I read it, the chief priests and Pharisees are

>in dialogue with Pilate and Pilate said to them,"Ye have a watch: go your

>way, make it as sure as ye can". So they went, made the sepulchre sure,

>sealing the stone, and setting a watch. There were no Roman soldiers

>involved in this operation, only Jews, and they are never mentioned again.



CREA
    I'm curious.  The term used in my Greek New Testament for the nound
"guard" in the passage in question is "koustodias", but my introduction to
NT Greek lists "phulae" as the only noun for "guard".  My __Shorter Oxford__
traces the etymology of custody/custodian only back to the Latin, not the
Greek, so I would venture to speculate that "koustodias" was a Roman/Latin
term in common use within the Roman Empire,  with possible military
overtones.  Maybe Nancy can give us a hand here.

With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>

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