αὐτῷ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτῷ

   au-TÔ

   to him
2. sentence🔊 Τίς δὲ ἐξ ὑμῶν δοῦλον ἔχων ἀροτριῶντα ἢ ποιμαίνοντα ὃς εἰσελθόντι ἐκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ Εὐθέως παρελθὼν ἀνάπεσε

   TIS de eks hy-MON DOU-lon E-khōn a-ro-tri-ŌN-ta Ê poi-ma-EE-non-ta hos ei-sel-THON-ti ek tou a-GROU e-REI au-TÔ eu-THE-ōs pa-rel-THŌN a-NA-pe-se

   Who then from you a slave having plowing or shepherding who when he came in from the field will say to him immediately having come recline

Exegesis

The relative pronoun hos {ὃς | hòs} introduces a clause that further characterizes this hypothetical master: hos eiselthonti ek tou agrou eipē autō {ὃς εἰσελθόντι ἐκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ εἴπῃ αὐτῷ | hòs ei-sel-thón-ti ek tou a-grou eíp-ē au-tō̂}. Here, the dative participle eiselthonti ‘when he has come in’ functions temporally in relation to the finite verb eipē, and is linked semantically with autō ‘to him,’ depicting the moment when the servant returns from the field. The aorist subjunctive eipē in a rhetorical question presents a potential action as unlikely: “would he say…?”