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Wednesday, January 01, 2025

After an Exorcism

Matthew 9:33 (tr. Robert K. Brown), in The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament ... Translators: Robert K. Brown and Philip W. Comfort (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1990), p. 32:
... ἐκβληθέντος τοῦ δαιμονίου ...

... CASTING OUT THE DEMONS ...
The interlinear translation here is wrong. CASTING OUT suggests that the participle ἐκβληθέντος is present active, whereas it's aorist passive. Similarly THE DEMONS suggests that τοῦ δαιμονίου is plural, whereas it's singular. The three words form a genitive absolute construction, meaning "the demon having been cast out."