Luke 5:38 BLHTEON

Jon R. Venema Grammata at compuserve.com
Tue Dec 29 18:36:29 EST 1998


Randy wrote:

>Luke 5:38 reads ALLA OINON NEON EIS ASKOUS KAINOUS 
>BLHTEON.

{snip}

>But why is the construction in the accusative? Is the understood form
>of EIMI an independent infinitive rather than an indicative?

BLHTEON, verbal adjective in -TEOS (rather -TOS; a hapax [BW,
Gramcord]) is impersonal and transitive governing the accusative 
"new wine" (Robertson, Grammar, 1097).

Jon R. Venema
Western Seminary



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