STRONGS G1631:
ἐκφύω; 2 aorist passive
ἐξεφύην (Winers Grammar, 90 (86); Buttmann, 68 (60); Krüger, § 40, under the word
φύω; [Veitch, ibid.]); [from Homer down];
to generate or
produce from; to cause to grow out:
ὅταν ὁ κλάδος...
τά φύλλα ἐκφύῃ (subjunctive present), when the branch has become tender and
puts forth leaves, R (
not Rst)
G T WH in
Matthew 24:32 and
Mark 13:28; [others, retaining the same accentuation, regard it as 2 aorist active subjunctive intransitive, with
τά φύλ. as subject; but against the change of subject see Meyer or Weiss]. But Fritzsche, Lachmann,
Treg., others have with reason restored [after Erasmus]
ἐκφύῇ (2 aorist passive subjunctive), which Griesbach had approved:
when the leaves have grown out, — so that
τὰ φύλλα is the subject.
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