I found a parallel of this phenomenon in Seneca, Letter 114, 17 (trans. Graver and Long, 2015):Regarding Mattheanisms like "weeping and gnashing of teeth", I think Greek Matthew could have read in Luke "weeping and gnashing of teeth", he liked it and then he repeated it.
Lucius Arruntius, an exceptionally frugal man and a historian of the Punic War, was a follower of Sallust and excelled at writing in that manner. Sallust has the phrase, “He effected an army with silver”; that is, he bought one. Arruntius fell in love with that expression and used it on every page. In one place he says, “They effected a rout for our men”; in another, “Hiero, king of the Syracusans, effected a war”; in another, “This news effected the surrender of Panhormus to the Romans.” And that’s only a sampling of such expressions — the whole book is full of them.
In other words, if Greek Matthew has many repetitions of some phrase that is used only once in Luke, that doesn't necessarily mean that Luke used Matthew because it could also mean that Matthew "fell in love with that expression" in Luke and used it many times.
Statistics: Posted by AdamKvanta — Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:54 am