Quotation Formulas

errethe aute ('it was said unto her') — Paul uses the same 'it was said' frame as a plain citation formula, 'the elder shall serve the younger'

hou errethe autois ('where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people') — errethe citation frame

ekousate hoti errethe tois archaiois ('ye have heard that it was said to them of old') — the antithesis frame; erreth V-API-3S; here 'thou shalt not kill'

errethe — antithesis frame, 'thou shalt not commit adultery'

errethe — antithesis frame, lex talionis 'an eye for an eye'

errethe — antithesis frame, 'thou shalt love thy neighbour' (+ the non-scriptural 'and hate thine enemy' — a formula introducing a citation PLUS a gloss, exegetically important)

hina he graphe plerothe he legousa — fulfillment formula fused with the graphe-noun frame (soldiers cast lots)

egeneto gar tauta hina he graphe plerothe — 'a bone of him shall not be broken' (Passover-lamb law; w/ Ps 34:20)

the ARCHETYPE fulfillment formula: hina plerothe to rhethen hypo kyriou dia tou prophetou legontos ('that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying') — pleroo V-APS-3S + rhethen V-APP-NSN together; contested source (LXX parthenos vs MT almah, steelman on the page)

hina plerothe to rhethen; Matthew's fulfillment frame over a manifestly retrospective Hosea text (contested typological reading — steelman)

tote eplerothe to rhethen (aorist indic. ho: 'THEN was fulfilled') — Matthew varies the frame from hina-subjunctive to tote-indicative for the Bethlehem slaughter

hopos plerothe to rhethen dia Esaiou — the healing-fulfillment frame ('himself took our infirmities')

hopos plerothe to rhethen dia tou prophetou — fulfillment formula applied to a PSALM ('I will open my mouth in parables'), Asaph titled 'the prophet'

touto de gegonen hina plerothe to rhethen — triumphal-entry fulfillment frame

tote eplerothe to rhethen dia Ieremiou tou prophetou — formula NAMES Jeremiah for a Zechariah wording (the classic attribution crux — present the data honestly, steelman)

hina ho logos Esaiou tou prophetou plerothe hon eipen — John's fulfillment frame naming the prophet's 'word'

kathos gegraptai heading Mark's whole Gospel (composite frame, w/ Mal 3:1) — the formula placed at a book's very threshold

kathos gegraptai — 'Jacob have I loved'; formula closes the election argument

hos kai en to psalmo gegraptai to deutero ('as it is written in the SECOND psalm') — a formula that cites by canonical LOCATION, evidence of an ordered, numbered Psalter

gegraptai (V-RPI-3S, 'it is written'), first of Jesus' 3 temptation citations (mat.4.4/4.7/4.10); the perfect tense = 'it stands written', an appeal to standing authority (Nicole)

kathos gegraptai ('as it is written') anchoring the thesis of Romans; one of 26 kathos-gegraptai frames, Paul's signature

gegraptai gar ('for it is written') — the causal-formula variant introducing the destruction-of-wisdom citation

gegraptai gar — a purely LEGAL citation (Paul before the council), formula carrying no fulfillment sense, only binding authority

hoti gegraptai — 'cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree'; formula introduces the curse-of-the-law argument

kathos gegraptai hoti — head of Paul's 6-verse catena of universal sin; one formula governs a chain of sources

legei gar he graphe ('for the scripture saith') — pairs an OT law (muzzle the ox) with a saying of Jesus under ONE graphe frame, an early canon-consciousness datum

ti gar he graphe legei? ('for what saith the scripture?') — the graphe-noun frame, Scripture personified as speaking (Nicole)

proidousa de he graphe ('the scripture, foreseeing') — Scripture personified as ACTING; 'preached the gospel before unto Abraham'

legei gar he graphe to Pharao ('the scripture saith unto Pharaoh') — graphe frame where the scripture 'speaks' the words God spoke to Pharaoh

legei gar he graphe — 'whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed'

hina ho logos tou Iesou plerothe hon eipen ('that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled') — fulfillment formula over Jesus' own saying about the manner of his death

hina plerothe ho logos hon eipen ('that the saying might be fulfilled which he spake') — the FULFILLMENT formula applied to JESUS' OWN prior word, not the OT (a Johannine sub-type)

kai palin ('and again') — the bare additive formula chaining a catena of proof-texts (Heb 1-2), the minimal citation frame

kathos legei to pneuma to hagion ('as the Holy Ghost saith') — present-tense legei with the SPIRIT as speaker; the 'eternal contemporaneity' present tense (Nicole's 41-instance class)

touto estin to eiremenon dia tou prophetou ('this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel') — the demonstrative fulfillment frame 'this is that', Peter at Pentecost; eiremenon = perf. pass. participle of g2046

autos David eipen en to pneumati to hagio ('David himself said by the Holy Ghost') — the human-author-plus-inspiration frame: names David AND the Spirit as co-speakers

touto de holon gegonen hina plerothosin hai graphai ton propheton ('that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled') — a plural-scriptures fulfillment frame with no single source; the arrest as fulfilling Scripture wholesale

all' hina plerothosin hai graphai ('but that the scriptures might be fulfilled') — Mark's bare, sourceless fulfillment frame at the arrest

oudepo gar edeisan ten graphen ('they knew not yet the scripture, that he must rise') — graphe-frame with a diffuse resurrection source; marks a citation-consciousness moment

anakrinontes tas graphas ('searching the scriptures daily, whether those things were so') — the Berean meta-frame: the site's own charter for how a reader should TEST a proposed citation

dienoixen... tou synienai tas graphas ('opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures') — the Emmaus meta-frame: how the risen Christ reads the whole of Scripture of himself

apethanen... kata tas graphas ('died for our sins ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES') — a credal citation frame with NO single OT source; a verse-pair table cannot hold it, this marker index can

egegertai... kata tas graphas ('raised the third day according to the scriptures') — diffuse-source citation frame (Hos 6:2? Jonah? Ps 16?), formula-marker only

kathos eipen he graphe ('as the scripture hath said') introducing 'rivers of living water' — famously UNLOCATABLE to any single OT verse; a genuine crux the marker preserves honestly

he graphe legei ('the scripture saith') introducing words matching no known OT text — a formula-marker crux; scholars debate whether it paraphrases or cites a lost source

dei plerothenai panta ta gegrammena en to nomo Moseos kai tois prophetais kai psalmois ('all things written... must be fulfilled') — the PROGRAMMATIC fulfillment statement, a formula over the whole canon rather than one verse

houtos gar estin ho rhetheis dia Esaiou tou prophetou ('this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah') — the rhethen frame WITHOUT pleroo: identification, not fulfillment

to bdelygma... to rhethen dia Daniel tou prophetou ('spoken of by Daniel the prophet') — rhethen frame, apocalyptic; Matthew's aside 'let him that readeth understand'

ouk anegnote to rhethen hymin hypo tou theou ('have ye not read that which was spoken unto you BY GOD') — rhethen frame naming God, not a prophet, as speaker (Nicole's God-as-author class)