[BibChr]

Goodness, what a snotty, supercilious response TO a nice, friendly posting, WRITTEN BY someone who evidently hasn't closely read either of mine. Maybe if you actually read the text in Luke. (More closely than you read my postings.)

No, this time you're totally off the mark.

Dan

[Remole]

Sorry, didn't mean to be snotty or supercilious; just meant to cover a number of possibilites so as to win the prize!!

[Remole]

Is it your point that the text says "hosei" [like] drops of blood--and so Luke is writing a simile and not a description?

That is possible, but certainly the image of the drops of blood are important to Luke, otherwise he would have simply written "katabe epi ten gen" [fell on the ground]. It seems to me that Luke--if these two verses derive from the sacred author--wanted to direct the audience's attention to the reality of the blood.