| 35. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the future middle indicative esontai {ἔσονται | és-on-tai} ‘they will be’, which sets a future scene and governs the participial clause. The numeral dyo {δύο | dý-o} modifies the participle alethousai {ἀλήθουσαι | alḗ-thou-sai} ‘grinding’, forming a nominative feminine plural participial phrase depicting ongoing action. The prepositional phrase epi to auto {ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό | epì tò au-tó} ‘upon the same place’ specifies a shared location. The contrastive pair hē mia {ἡ μία | hē mí-a} ‘the one’ and hē de hetera {ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα | hē dè he-té-ra} ‘but the other’ uses de to mark a stark contrast. The future passive verbs paralemphthesetai {παραλημφθήσεται | pa-ra-lēm-phthḗ-se-tai} ‘will be taken’ and aphethesetai {ἀφεθήσεται | a-phe-thḗ-se-tai} ‘will be left’ indicate an external agent effecting separation, mirrored by the parallel passive structure in English. |