(September 29, 2013 at 10:13 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Drich, it is really quite simple: can the clauses stand alone as complete sentences? If so, they are independent clauses. That they are translated from another language is problematic - however, the translator chose to represent them that way, and I assume it was not without reason.
That they are separated by semicolons in the translation further supports my position that they are independent clauses - and do not modify one another.
If verse 9 were a stand alone verse or even the beginning of this precept I would agree. But it is not a/s/k was modeled in the parable. Remember verse 9 was the beginning of the explanation of the parable Jesus just told. And ties the parable to the precept.
