Another articular infinitive

Edgar M. Krentz emkrentz at mcs.com
Fri Oct 15 18:58:20 EDT 1999


>   Michael Steinman's query was timely for me; I was just puzzling over a
>different instance of the articular infinitive in the genitive.  1 Clement
>13:1 gives a somewhat garbled citation of Jer 9:23-24 and / or 1 Sam 2:10
>(cf. 1 Cor. 1:31; 2 Cor. 10:17), LXX:
>
>... ALL' hO KAUXWMENOS EN KURIW KAUXASQW, TOU EKZHTEIN AUTON KAI POIEIN
>KRIMA KAI DIKAIOSUNHN.
>
>   Here it doesn't seem to be expressing "purpose."  Any suggestions?
>
>-- Bart Ehrman
>   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Why can it not express purpose: "Let him boast in the Lord, to see him and
does judgment and justice."

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