cwconrad wrote:The second sentence is meaningless because ποῦ is not demonstrative but interrogative. There's an indefinite πού enclitic adverb that can mean "somewhere" -- but I don't recall ever seeing it in the GNT (but my recollection isn't that good). ἐν τόπῳ τινὶ means "at a particular place that doesn't need to be named."
I was a little confused about this. To me, ποῦ seems to have this meaning here:
Matthew 8:20 wrote:ὁ δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ
Luke 9:58 wrote:ὁ δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ.
Luke 12:17 wrote:Τί ποιήσω, ὅτι οὐκ ἔχω ποῦ συνάξω τοὺς καρπούς μου;
That may be a fixed expression οὐκ ἔχειν ποῦ, and trying to use it with this meaning outside of this expression was probably a mistake.
The nearest equivalents for πού that I found were in Hebrews, referring to where something is written:
Hebrews 2:6 wrote:διεμαρτύρατο δέ πού τις λέγων
Hebrews 4:4 wrote:εἴρηκεν γάρ που περὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης οὕτως
I know that for questions, ποῦ has mostly replaced ποῖ, I was wondering if the same might be true for πού with the sense of 'somewhere'. At any rate, that was the state of my waffling when I posted that sentence earlier.
cwconrad wrote:The third sentence makes the reference, if possible, more casual, as if they'd been waiting to catch him praying so that they could put the question to him, but why couldn't they do that at any time. The way Luke introduces it is rather by noting that this happened at some place that nobody remembers or that doesn't have any real bearing on the event's significance; what's more important is that it happened while he was praying. Nevertheless it happened at a particular time and place that doesn't need to be described.
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