ὅτι

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ὅτι

   HO-ti

   that
2. sentence🔊 ἐὰν οὖν συνέλθῃ ἡ ἐκκλησία ὅλη ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ πάντες λαλῶσιν γλώσσαις εἰσέλθωσιν δὲ ἰδιῶται ἢ ἄπιστοι οὐκ ἐροῦσιν ὅτι μαίνεσθε

   e-AN OUN sy-NEL-thê hê ek-klê-SI-a HO-lê e-PI to au-TO KAI PAN-tes la-LO-sin GLÔS-sais ei-SEL-thô-sin de i-di-Ô-tai ê A-pis-toi ouk e-ROU-sin HO-ti MAI-nes-the

   if therefore comes together the church whole at the same and all speak in tongues enter but outsiders or unbelievers not will say that you are out of your minds

Exegesis

The apodosis is a rhetorical question: ouk erousin hoti mainesthe {οὐκ ἐροῦσιν ὅτι μαίνεσθε | ouk eroûsin hóti maínesthe}, literally “will they not say that you are mad?” The future indicative erousin presents their verdict as a predictable response, while the present mainesthe depicts the believers’ behavior as ongoingly irrational from the outsiders’ perspective. English translation mirrors the Greek conditional structure with an “if … will they not” pattern and preserves the rhetorical force by rendering it as a pointed question, while rearranging clauses slightly for smoother word order in English.