accusative in Gal 1.9

Edward Hobbs EHOBBS at WELLESLEY.EDU
Fri Jun 12 16:51:35 EDT 1998


Ian Scott asks:

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I'm working on Galatians 1.9 and am confused by what seems to be the use
of the accusative case for the indirect object.  The problem clause is
this one:

	ei tis umas euaggelizetai par' o parelabete

Is umas to be considered the direct object of euaggelizetai, or is it an
indirect object (to you).  In the latter case I suppose the direct object
would be an implied "Gospel" which serves as the understood antecedent of
the relative pronoun in o parelabete.  Or am I just reading this wrong?

Ian W. Scott
Grad student in Religious Studies, McMaster University 

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The answer is that EUAGGELIZOMAI takes the accusative for the content of 
the proclamation, and EITHER dative (as in Gal. 1:8) OR accusative (as in
Gal. 1:9) for the recipient of the proclamation.  Dative is more common.
See Bauer, 2.a.gamma.


Edward Hobbs


PS: Your distinguished faculty used to include Ben Meyer (now deceased), Ed 
Sanders (now at Duke), and John Robertson (still there?), all old friends--
Ben was a colleague of mine in Berkeley back in the 1960's, Ed went to SMU/
Perkins in 1958 to study with me (just as I left for Berkeley!), and John 
was a student of mine at SMU, I seem to recall.





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