> At 09:52 PM 2/7/97 -0600, Carl William Conrad wrote:
> >On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> > Mark 1:19 (GNT) Kai probas oligon eiden Iakwbon ton tou Zebedaiou kai
> > Iwannhn ton adelfon autou kai *autous* en tw ploiw katartizontas ta diktua
> >
> >> I remember a discussion of attraction of the pronoun earlier - is that what
> >> I'm looking at here?
> >
> >No, not really--this is repetition of the immediately preceding objects of
> >EIDEN (IAKWBON ... KAI IWANNHN) followed by an emphatic AUTOUS emphasized
> >further by an adverbial KAI: " ... saw James ... & John, them also in the
> >boat ..." I would undestand this KAI AUTOUS as clarifying that Jesus
> >encountered James and John on the coastline and on a boat just as he had
> >previously encountered Simon and Andrew. By this accounting, AUTOUS is in
> >apposition to the proper noun objects.
>
> Hmmm...I'm glad I asked. I would have missed the significance of that KAI
> AUTOUS completely. Now suppose I change the AUTOUS to AUTOI:
>
> Mark 1:19 (GNT) Kai probas oligon eiden Iakwbon ton tou Zebedaiou kai
> Iwannhn ton adelfon autou kai *autoi* en tw ploiw katartizontas ta diktua
>
> In this case, it is still grammatical, but the KAI is not adverbial, right?
No, it's no longer grammatical: now you have a NOMINATIVE that won't
construe with that PARTICIPLE in the ACCUSATIVE; that's why I suggested
the alernative view of AUTOUS ... KATARTIZONTAS as an indirect-discourse
clause functioning as a second object of EIDEN.
I have a sense that some NT grammars don't really deal with this, even if
they do take up the accusative + infinitive type clause of indirect
discourse used with a verb of speaking,etc., because it's enough like
English that it doesn't seem worth singling out for discussion--and if you
look at this whole sequence and read it as follows, it doesn't really seem
so problematic, does it?
"And he walked a bit further and saw James the son of Zebedee and his
brother John--and them [better: them also] in the boat mending (their)
nets." OR ALTERNATIVELY: "saw James ... and John, and that they were in
the boat mending their nets."
>
> Whoa! You just sent me off to the books again...this is advanced calculus
> for me. I don't think I've ever run into this before.
Is it conceivable that you've not ever run into this before? I learned
this as "Indirect Discourse," "Oratio Obliqua"--with the distinction of
two kinds of introductory verbs: verbs of "saying" taking acc. + inf.,
verbs of "perceiving" taking acc. + ptc. I suspect that this is another
instance of the NT grammarians inventing a terminology different from that
of classical Attic grammar. I'll check in the office later and see what
they call it.
Carl W. Conrad
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