Proclitics, Enclitics and TIS

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jul 21 14:46:58 EDT 1998


In Acts 13:15 we have EI TIS ESTIV. The editors of the received text (NA27)
have placed the accents 

EI/ TI/S ESTIN

But Ropes and Alford have

EI/ TIS E/STIN

Now EI is a proclitic and TIS is enclitic and ESTIN appears to behave like an
enclitic, so the accent on the enclitic TIS falls back on the proclitic EI and
the accent on ESTIN falls back on the the enclitic TIS. The result of all this
is to create a bit of hard reading for those who are accustom to the absolute
assurance that TIS and TI/S can always be distinguished by the accent.

I suspect the difference between Alford/Ropes and NA27 is an editorial
decision regarding readability, is this true or is there something more
significant going on here? 


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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062



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