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- February 14th, 2019, 4:27 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Infinitive Subjects of ἐγένετο
- Replies: 34
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Re: Infinitive Subjects of ἐγένετο
In most of these sentences I would consider the infinitive part of the direct object of γίγνομαι, not the subject.
- January 22nd, 2019, 11:22 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: In 2 Corinthians 3:6 what is the nuance of genitives vs datives?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9179
Re: In 2 Corinthians 3:6 what is the nuance of genitives vs datives?
Yes, διάκονος is a bit strange that way. But something similar exists in English with "public servant".
- January 22nd, 2019, 10:10 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: In 2 Corinthians 3:6 what is the nuance of genitives vs datives?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9179
Re: In 2 Corinthians 3:6 what is the nuance of genitives vs datives?
I can't see how datives would make much sense here. The genitives are quite what one would expect. There wouldn't be a different nuance with dative, it would rather be difficult find a meaning at all.
- December 8th, 2018, 1:10 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Punctuation and Luke 2:22
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2504
Re: Punctuation and Luke 2:22
I see. There is nothing syntactically incorrect with the sentence after moving the comma, and not bad Greek, but what you are doing then is creating a new text, with a different meaning than the one Luke wrote. Since Greek writing didn't use punctuation, Luke would have expected his readers to under...
- December 6th, 2018, 6:53 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Punctuation and Luke 2:22
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2504
Re: Punctuation and Luke 2:22
Punctuation is inserted by editors in order to help readers, so they reflect the editor's interpretation, they are not part of the text, as you obviously realize. The hermeneutic consequence of this, however, if there is some uncertainty of interpretation, is that if there is a possible difference o...
- December 4th, 2018, 11:32 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Clement of Alexandria Paedagogus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2075
Re: Clement of Alexandria Paedagogus
And I don't know if this is the best online edition, but I found the text here:
http://ardownload.catholiclibrary.org/l ... nd=default#
http://ardownload.catholiclibrary.org/l ... nd=default#
- December 4th, 2018, 10:54 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Clement of Alexandria Paedagogus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2075
Re: Clement of Alexandria Paedagogus
I think it refers to M. Harl, H.-I. Marrou, C. Matray, and C. Mondésert's edition, which divides the text in 3 books. It has three chapters and sub-chapters which continue counting up across the chapters, so there's 101 sub-chapters in all. Here's the sub-chapter 39 of book 3: Σταλτέον δὲ καὶ τὴν φί...
- November 8th, 2018, 6:54 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: 1 Tim 1:7 - μὴ... μήτε
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3792
Re: 1 Tim 1:7 - μὴ... μήτε
Greek allows for double negatives where the last negative is a compound like οὐδέν or, like here, μήτε, something which standard English doesn't allow, and therefore it seems strange at first sight when it says "they don't know neither x nor y", but in Greek this is the most normal way to ...
- November 4th, 2018, 12:44 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: The Words Συντελεία and Τέλος in Mt 24
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12785
Re: The Words Συντελεία and Τέλος in Mt 24
We can't know the motive for the choice of words. Both could probably have worked in both settings here, but there is a nuance of a difference. συντελεία is a completion of something, often of a common effort towards a goal, while τέλος simply means end or goal, but it can of course also be used whe...
- July 24th, 2018, 11:18 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of an Excerpt From a Greek Text
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2574
Re: Translation of an Excerpt From a Greek Text
Are you saying Stephen answers the question: Τίνα τῶν προφητῶν οὐκ ἀπέκτειναν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν; by saying τοὺς προκαταγγείλαντας περὶ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ? I see this as a rhetorical question, it isn't meant to be answered. If he answered it that way, wouldn't it mean that they hadn't killed th...