Rom. 12:15 infinitives
Carl Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 6 11:32:28 EDT 1999
On 08/06/99, "Jim West <jwest at Highland.Net>" wrote:
> At 10:03 AM 8/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >Can someone help me understand how the infinitives are being used here?
> >
> >Rom. 12:14-15 -
> > EULOGEITE TOUS DIWKONTAS,
> > EULOGEITE KAI MH KATAPASQE.
> > CAIREIN META CAIRONTWN,
> > KLAIEIN META KLAIONTWN.
> >
> >I want to connect CAIREIN and KLAIEIN with some verb and subject,
> >e.g. EULOGEITE; however, that doesn't seem to fit. What's Paul
> >doing here?
>
> The participles contain the subject. The nature of participles is that they
> are verbal nouns. Here the call is to rejoice with whoever rejoices and
> weep with whoever weeps. Rather general and universalistic- but appropriate
> none the less.
This is misleading, I think. The subject of CAIREIN and of KLAIEIN is
identical with the subjects of EULOGEITE and MH KATARASQE, inasmuch as
these are, as Chris Hutson notes, imperatival infinitives.
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