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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