Titus 2:2
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 6 20:17:45 EDT 1999
At 12:20 AM +0200 10/7/99, Kevin Smith wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>In discussing the use of the Greek infinitive, Daniel Wallace (GGBB, 606)
>says, "Like any other substantive, the substantival infinitive may stand
>in apposition to a noun, pronoun, or substantival adjective (or some other
>substantive)." After further explanation he includes in his list of
>examples Titus 2:2, in which he says the infinitive is in apposition "to
>an implied pronoun" (p. 607).
>
>Titus 2:1-2 reads: [1] SU DE LALEI hA PREPEI THi hUGIAINOUSHi DIDASKALIAi.
>[2] PRESBUTAS NHFALIOUS EINAI, SEMNOUS, SWFRONAS, hUGIAINONTAS THi PISTEI,
>THi AGAPH, THi hUPOMONHi.
>
>The verse seems to make perfect sense without my needing to supply any
>pronoun. Can anyone tell me what pronoun Dr Wallace regards as implicit
>here, and why?
Well, there are a couple ways to construe it. I rather suspect that what
Wallace has in mind is that the entire infinitive phrase PRESBUTAS EINAI X,
Y, Z, KTL. stands in opposition to the implicit subject of hA PREPEI THi
hUGIAINOUSHi DIDASKALIAi, which would be perhaps an implicit EKEINA, or
TAUTA--those things.
Carl W. Conrad
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