Acts 8:34 - final τινός

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Jonathan Robie
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Acts 8:34 - final τινός

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Acts 8:34 wrote:περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
Why is that last τινός there? What is the difference between:

περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;

and

περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου;
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Re: Acts 8:34 - final τινός

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Jonathan Robie wrote:
Acts 8:34 wrote:περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
Why is that last τινός there? What is the difference between:

περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;

and

περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου;
As I see it, it's the difference between "another" and "somebody else" -- not so much a semantic distinction as a matter of emphasis in ἑτέρου τινός on the particularity of the other person, between "anyone else" and "someone else."
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

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Re: Acts 8:34 - final τινός

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Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Jonathan Robie wrote:Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
The first one is actually τίνος, not τινός (note the accent).
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