KYLE: Data inconsistency Mt 5:48

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

The addressee for this passage taken from the Context Menu is Crowd at Sermon on the Mount. Yet the Theme as shown in the Clause search is Disciples. I see nothing in the text that implies that the "you" of the command is a subset of the audience. Therefore, I suspect the coding is in error.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Lew Worthington
    Lew Worthington Member Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    The ambiguity of Matthew's (the narrator) audience has been noted in the past. I don't remember by whom. The idea is that the disciples are recognized as the hearers at the start, but the crowd, in general, at the end. 

    Of course, I have no idea if that's what lies behind the data identification in this case.

  • Jimmy Parks
    Jimmy Parks Member, Logos Employee Posts: 113

    Thank you for catching this inconsistency in our tagging. The reported speech annotation annotated the crowd, while our referent tagging references only the disciples. We will get that fixed.

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