Mark 2:19

Mark Goodacre M.S.GOODACRE at bham.ac.uk
Wed Jun 23 05:49:24 EDT 1999


On 22 Jun 99, at 17:16, UpoXarin at aol.com wrote:

> I don't understand why hOSON XRONON is in the accusative.  It appears to
> be functioning adverbially, answering the question of how long.  A.T.
> Robertson suggests that there is some sort of attraction going on.  Any
> help would be appreciated.

I would say that it is because we have here the accusative used of duration of 
time (= time how long), i.e. it means something like "for how long a time".  

Mark
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