Syntactical Looseness

Joseph Brian Tucker music at riverviewcog.org
Thu Aug 26 11:13:38 EDT 1999


Greetings

Philippians 1:30: TON AUTON AGWNA EXONTES, hOION EIDETE EN EMOI KAI NUN 
AKOUETE EN EMOI

EXONTES - Present Active Participle Nominative Masculine 2nd Plural. 
Shouldn't EXONTES be EXOUSIN (dative) which would make it in agreement with 
hUMIN (from the first part of the sentence in verse 29) to which the 
participle refers?

1. What should be done when one comes across examples of synatactical 
looseness?

2. Is this an example of it?

3. Are there any other possibilities to which EXONTES could refer?

Thank You
Brian Tucker
music at riverviewcog.org
Riverview, MI



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