Comparatives/Superlatives in the NT

Stevens, Charles C Charles.Stevens at unisys.com
Thu Oct 8 18:36:29 EDT 1998


Where does MEIZOTERAN in 3 John 4 fit in this scheme, since it has a
reduplicated comparitive sense rather than a superlative component (as I
read it, anyway)?   

    -Chuck Stevens [SMTP:  Charles.Stevens at unisys.com]

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> From: 	ben.crick at argonet.co.uk[SMTP:ben.crick at argonet.co.uk]
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 08, 1998 4:19 PM
> To: 	Biblical Greek
> Subject: 	Re: Comparatives/Superlatives in the NT
> 
> On Thu  8 Oct 98 (19:42:30), plong at gbcol.edu wrote:
> > Both Perschbacher and Wallace use the term "elative" which I was not
> > familiar with until reading their sections.  I have seen "strengthened
> > superlative," although that seems like a different thing to me.
> 
>  Phillip:
> 
>  Perhaps Perschenbacher and Wallace had Paul's ELACISTOTEROS in mind from
>  Ephesians 3:8: "less than the least" or "the leastest". Reminds me of
>  "the Hostess with the mostest" in /Call me Madam/. 8-D
> 
>  Am I right?  I only have JH Moulton, /An Introduction to the Study of NT
>  Greek/ (revised ed 1955) and HPV Nunn, /The Elements of NT Greek/ (3rd ed
>  1923) here. Moulton does have short sections on both Comparatives and
>  Superlatives: see his Index II. Nunn also has paragraphs on /The
> Comparison
>  of Adjectives/ (pp 83f) and /The Superlative/ (p 84).
> 
>  ERRWSQE
>  Ben
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