The usage of TOU + Infinitive in Gal 3:10

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Dec 2 10:36:03 EST 2000


At 10:07 AM -0500 12/2/00, Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:
>> [ hOS [OUK EMMENEI PASIN TOIS GEGRAMMENOIS EN TWi BIBLIWi TOU NOMOU]
>> [TOU POIHSAI AUTA ]
>Dear Carl,
>thank you for your comments. After I posted my questions, I looked up
>LXX, and came to the conclusion you suggested. The Hebrew text also
>suggests the same conclusion.
>
>But my real question comes down to whether the following parsing is
>grammatically possible:
>
>[ hOS [OUK EMMENEI PASIN TOI GEGRAMMENOIS EN TWi BIBLIWi TOU NOMOU]
>      [TOU POIHSAI AUTA]
>]
>
>If so, would it be grammatically possible to interpret the sentence as
>follows:
>
> not remain in all things written in the book of the law, BY DOING them.
>
>This interpretation takes TOU POIHSAI AUTA as an adverbial of means.
>I wonder if such an rendering is grammatically possible for TOU +
>Infinitive.

No, I can't see that; one would only need to have written TWi POIHSAI AUTA
to yield that sense. I can't see the articular infinitive in the genitive
serving that sort of function.

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