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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 12:21:10 CST
From: Carl Conrad <C25001CC@WUVMD>
Subject: Re: Hoping to shed more light.
To: GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU <WHEIDLER@buscis.trevecca.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Apr 1994 11:07:52 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 14 Apr 1994 11:07:52 -0600 (CST) you said:
>...
>And I ask this because I see in verse 15 that the Greek reads:
>"o gar katergazomai ou ginwskw (No Problem Here). ou gar o thelw touto
>prassw (here lies my question), all o misw touto poiw."
>Do you negate the verb 'to practice' or do you negate the verb
>'to want'? It apprears that the English version negates the second verb
>of the sentence.
I think I see what your problem is now: In ou gar ho thelw toutv poiw, the OY
does not directly negate the second verb; rather it negates the subordinate
clause. More literally it is: "For NOT the thing which I want THAT do I do ..."
i.e. TOUTO picks up and repeats the content of HO THELW. Reversing the word-
order, it translates more easily as, "For that thing I do, (the thing) which
I DON'T WANT (to do). To summarize, then: in this instance, the OY negates
the relative clause, HO THELW.
I earnestly hope this makes things a little bit more clear.
CARL W. CONRAD, C25001CC@WUVMD.BITNET OR C25001CC@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU
Classics, Washington University, One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone: (314) 935-4018
CARL W. CONRAD, C25001CC@WUVMD.BITNET OR C25001CC@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU
Classics, Washington University, One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone: (314) 935-4018