Ase Hɔ Asɛm

a Wɔ asɛm “awo ntoatoaso yi” mu no, houʹtos a ɛyɛ edinnsiananmu a wɔde kyerɛ biribi no ne Twi asɛmfua “eyi” no hyia. Ebetumi akyerɛ biribi a ɛrekɔ so anaa esii ansa na ɔkasafo no reba. Nanso ebetumi akyerɛ nneɛma foforo nso. Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (1991) ka sɛ: “Asɛmfua [houʹtos] kyerɛ asɛm a asi foforo. Enti [aion houʹtos] yɛ ‘wiase a ɛwɔ hɔ mprempren yi’ . . . na [geneaʹ haute] kyerɛ ‘awo ntoatoaso a ɛwɔ hɔ mprempren yi’ (nhwɛso, Mat. 12:41 ase hɔ asɛm, 45; 24:34).” Ɔbenfo George B. Winer kyerɛw sɛ: “Ɛtɔ mmere bi a edinnsiananmu [houʹtos] no mfa biribi a ɛbɛn pɛɛ ho na mmom nea ɛwɔ akyiri, a sɛ́ asɛmti titiriw no, nea ɛba adwene mu ntɛm sen biara, nea ɔkyerɛwfo no adwene kɔ so ntɛm sen biara.”—A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament, nea ɛto so 7, 1897.