Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
As if a man should cast (wv anqrwpov balh). Note wv with the aorist subjunctive without an. It is a supposable case and so the subjunctive and the aorist tense because a single instance. Blass considers this idiom "quite impossible," but it is the true text here and makes good sense (Robertson, Grammar, p. 968). The more common idiom would have been wv ean (or an).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 4:26:
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Mark 4:2
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1 Thessalonians 2:7
1 Peter 1:23
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