Raymond Brown wrote:
> Well, it ain't. The vocative is 'He:lie'.
I didn't even know Greek *had* a vocative.
> So Matthew quotes the cry in Hebrew?
Just the name "eli" is Hebrew.
> ...and as Greek had no way of showing medial /h/, it would written: 'elai'
> or 'eloi'.
So *that*'s why there's the disagreement between eli and eloi. The
evangelists disagreed over whether he used the Hebrew or the Aramaic
form for "my God".
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