Luk 15:26 | RWP | e4.org | Servants ( παιδων ). Not δουλο (bondslaves) as in verse . The Greeks often used παις for servant like the Latin puer . It could be either a hired servant ( μισθιος , verse ) or slave ( δουλος ). He inquired ( επυνθανετο ). Imperfect middle, inquired repeatedly and eagerly. What these things might be ( τ αν ειη ταυτα ). Not "poor" Greek as Easton holds, but simply the form of the direct question retained in the indirect. See the direct form as the apodosis of a condition of the fourth class in . In we have the construction with αν ειη of the direct retained in the indirect question. So also in : See Robertson, Grammar , p. 1044.

‏ Luke 15:26

Servants ( παιδων ). Not δουλο (bondslaves) as in verse 22. The Greeks often used παις for servant like the Latin puer. It could be either a hired servant ( μισθιος, verse 17) or slave ( δουλος ).

He inquired ( επυνθανετο ). Imperfect middle, inquired repeatedly and eagerly.

What these things might be ( τ αν ειη ταυτα ). Not "poor" Greek as Easton holds, but simply the form of the direct question retained in the indirect. See the direct form as the apodosis of a condition of the fourth class in Ac 17:18. In Ac 10:17 we have the construction with αν ειη of the direct retained in the indirect question. So also in Lu 1:62: See Robertson, Grammar, p. 1044.