eis + accusative
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jul 18 06:11:05 EDT 1998
At 11:39 PM -0400 7/17/98, Jim West wrote:
>in Dana/Mantey, sec. 111, eis is discussed.
>"resultant meanings: with the accusative case: into, unto, to for. These
>meanings are very common." "Eis is used more than 1700 times in the NT, and
>it occurs only in the accusative case."
>
>Their "resultant meanings" I take as meaning result.
Perhaps my problem is with the English; I never would have thought that
"resultant meanings" implied such a thing as "accusative of result."
Carl W. Conrad
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