In/On in the Greek New Testament

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Dec 23 12:48:40 EST 1999


At 11:22 AM -0600 12/23/99, Bill Ross wrote:
><George>
>>...The Greek New Testament itself does not distinguish between in and on.
>
><Bill>
>Wouldn't "in" be EN and "on" be EP??

No, certainly not exclusively. What George wrote was absolutely on target.
EPI has a wider range of usage than EN depending on whether it's used with
a genitive, a dative, or an accusative. EN can be used ONLY with a locative
dative. This is one of those items concerning which the reference grammars
are very good; most of them have appendices or special sections
differentiating the usages of the prepositions.

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