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From: "Carlton L. Winbery" <winberyc at popalex1.linknet.net>
Subject: Re: Titus 2:11
Carl Conrad responded to Kevin:
>>Thanks for the feedback, Carl. Forgive me for not including it in my
>>initial question, but I have another question about Titus 2:11-12a, which
>>reads:
>>EPEFANH GAR hH CARIS TOU QEOU SWTHRIOS PASIN ANQRWPOIS PAIDEUOUSA hHMAS....
>>
>>Technically speaking, does PAIDEUOUSA modify CARIS or EPEFANH? Is the
>>distinction at all relevant? I would have expected it to modify EPEFANH,
>>but if PAIDEUOUSA and SWTHRIOS are logically co-ordinate, I would expect
>>them to both be modifying the same word. Presumably SWTHRIOS (adjective)
>>must be modifying CARIS (noun).
>
>Yes, both (SWTHRIOS and PAIDEUOUSA) are in agreement with CARIS--they take
>their gender, number, and case from it--but they construe with EPEFANH in
>the same way that any supplementary or circumstantial participle construes
>with the verb, to qualify its applicability.
>
>I'll give you the further references in NT grammars for that construction
>of supplementary participles with verbs of perception, showing, and
>revealing when I get to my office this morning.
>
I have noted Carl's further note on this and would mention Funk Vol II
paragraph 770.2 which reads;
"The participle . . . is said to supplement the main or finite verb . . .
in forming a verb chain. This use of the participle is conventionally
called supplementary. It is treated in this grammar under verb chains 568,
571ff; see paragraphs 584, 585 for additional uses of the supplementary
participle."
The long section under paragraph 584 works through what he calls
"catenatives." These are participles that many grammars treat as
circumstantial. He discusses six different groups of catenatives. This is
the most thorough treatment of which I am aware (pardon me prime minister).
I would just add a note agreeing with Kevin that SWTHRIOS is an adjective
of the second declension only where the same form is either masc. or fem.
The adjective though implies an action of saving and thus functions the
same way the participle does. The participle after all is a verbal
adjective.
Note that both the adjective and the participle, while suplementing the
verb, must agree with the subject of the verb, CARIS.
Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Prof. of Religion
Louisiana College Box 612
Pineville, LA 71359
winbery at andria.lacollege.edu
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