Ah, but in general, doesn't Modern Greek use the subjunctive FOR the
infinitive? e.g. QA DW ("I shall see"; lit. "I want to see") <-- Koine QELW
hINA IDW?
The POU clause is interesting; I guess I've never thought about it because
it doesn't seem problematic. Others should beble to say whether it is
commonplace in the NT and whether there are other examples; offhand I would
doubt it. Classical Attic would have an indicative for an indirect question
in primary sequence: OUX EXEI hOPOU THN KEFALHN KLINEI--but in fact, this
is more deliberative or dependent upon a deliberative construction: "Where
is he to lay his head?" "He does not have (a place) where he may lay his
head." So it's not really a straight indirect question in standard Greek.
Ironically, however, the Latin indirect question does appear to be
constructed on the basis of the deliberative subjunctive: NON HABET UBI
CAPUT DEPONAT. Which raises an interesting (to me, at least) question:
there have, I know, been investigations of Latin vocabulary in the GNT, as
in Mark's gospel; does anyone know whether there's been a study of
_Latinisms_ in Koine Greek?
Carl W. Conrad
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