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by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 19th, 2024, 2:07 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Acts 21:25
Replies: 28
Views: 9174

Re: Acts 21:25

You don't seem to have checked dictionnaries. OK, the verb is common and versatile. Indeed it can mean observe, keep etc. (not "keep for/by itself"!) under some circumstances. This is backed up by Thayer, not by LSJ. But does it mean that here ? That's not something you can just choose. T...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 18th, 2024, 2:48 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Acts 21:25
Replies: 28
Views: 9174

Re: Acts 21:25

My assumption is that φυλάσσω in the middle voice can mean "to keep for/by itself" according to what mean/express the middle voice in general. You make two mistakes here. First, that's not what middle voice means. The current majority view (of those who have kept themselves informed about...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
May 30th, 2024, 12:54 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Can a verb subordinates participle semantically?
Replies: 6
Views: 12347

Re: Can a verb subordinates participle semantically ?

Indeed I agree that meaning and purpose of a text can't be reduced to grammatical or syntactic (or even discourse) analysis, but using the word "semantic(ally)" feels suspicious. What is semantics? Can it be separated from grammar on the one hand and pragmatics on the other? Do Cotterell/T...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
May 29th, 2024, 2:30 pm
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: EXPERT HELP NEEDED
Replies: 1
Views: 5644

Re: EXPERT HELP NEEDED

I don't want to discuss that privately, I would rather like to see publicly here some examples of what he says.
by Eeli Kaikkonen
May 29th, 2024, 2:04 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Can a verb subordinates participle semantically?
Replies: 6
Views: 12347

Re: Can a verb subordinates participle semantically ?

Διώκετε τὴν ἀγάπην ζηλοῦτε δὲ τὰ πνευματικά μᾶλλον δὲ ἵνα προφητεύητε. I see an ellipsis of a main verb there, we must assume ζηλοῦτε belonging to the third line, too. It's μᾶλλον δὲ which makes ἵνα προφητεύητε more prominent. It's not the verbs which are compared, it's τὰ πνευματικά in general vs. ...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 18th, 2024, 12:16 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·
Replies: 6
Views: 8158

Re: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·

whether there is an ellipsis there at all in the καθως clause, which I don’t think that there is. You may be right. My main point is that people see something which deviates from (in their opinion) good, complete, neat, clean grammar/syntax. Then they try to explain this by resorting to some missin...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 17th, 2024, 10:47 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·
Replies: 6
Views: 8158

Re: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·

Maybe the grammatical/syntactic helps try to be so analytical that they make this, and whole language, too wooden? I think I have sometimes said that in my opinion we don't need to find the exact words left out in an ellipsis. The original speakers didn't first form a grammatically, syntactically an...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 6th, 2024, 9:35 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Titus 2:3 "καλοδιδασκάλους"
Replies: 8
Views: 9997

Re: Titus 2:3 "καλοδιδασκάλους"

This is necessarily a larger exegetical and theological question, and also personal to many of us. This whole discussion has been beaten to death many times, thousands of articles and even whole books written about it, including lexicographical and grammatical problems and non-problems. No consensus...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 2nd, 2024, 10:55 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Strange teachings
Replies: 1
Views: 6914

Re: Strange teachings

In those examples those people don't seem to be able to express their thoughts well. I would give them a benefit of doubt and think that they mean something else than what they say. For example, in Gordon Lewis summarizes the usage as follows: The verb is used fifteen times in the New Testament. &qu...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 1st, 2024, 7:27 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Titus 2:3 "καλοδιδασκάλους"
Replies: 8
Views: 9997

Re: Titus 2:3 "καλοδιδασκάλους"

EDIT: I'll have to read the original post more carefully...

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