Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Unreliability of Eyewitnesses
Polybius 12.24.6 (tr. Ian Scott-Kilvert):
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...many men, although they may be present at an event, might just as well not be there, and likewise may be eye-witnesses yet actually see nothing; this fact arises from their ignorance and defective judgement...F.W. Walbank in his commentary compares Matthew 13.13 (here in the New International Version):
...συμβαίνει διὰ τὴν ἀπειρίαν καὶ κακοκρισίαν πολλοὺς ἐνίοτε καθάπερ εἰ παρόντας τρόπον τινὰ μὴ παρεῖναι καὶ βλέποντας μὴ βλέπειν...
Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
βλέποντες οὐ βλέπουσιν καὶ ἀκούοντες οὐκ ἀκούουσιν οὐδὲ συνίουσιν.
