TOUTEKEIN AUTHS in Luke 1:57

From: Ken Litwak (litwakk@martha.trinity-bris.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 22 1998 - 10:32:29 EST


  I haven't been able to find a commentator who has elucidated this for
me, so maybe someone on the list can. I'm trying to figure out how, in
Luke 1:57,
TH DE ELISABET PLHSQH (O CRONOS TOU TEKEIN AUTHN
to construe AUTHN. It looks like it should go with TOU TEKEIN as the
accusative subject of the infinitive, but that yields a sense like
And the time was fulfilled for Elizateh she gave birth and gave birth to a
son. Since TEKEIN, and GENNAW in the following clause both mean roughly
the same think I think, it might make more sense to construe AUTHS with
CRONOS,
And for Elizabeth, her time was fulfilled to give birth, and she gave
birth to a son.

Anytone have suggestions on the syntactical relations here? Please
respond to me directly as I am not a list member. Thanks.

Grace and Peace,

Ken Litwak
M. LItt. program
Trinity College/Univ. of Bristol (much more prestigouis than where I was
going!)
Bristol, England
litwakk@trinity-bris.ac.uk



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