article beginning a clause?

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Sat Dec 30 12:47:24 EST 2000


At 17:07 30/12/00, Suedaleg at aol.com wrote:

>The article starting the second clause (neuter nom/acc sing) having no noun
>to match must introduce a phrase, but appears to introduce the entire clause.

--- which is an indirect question, as in 1:62 where Zerwick, Maximilian,& 
Grosvenor, Mary. A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament. Rome, 
notes:
 >> Luke inclined to introduce indirect questions with the article which in 
such cases is untranslateable.<<

Apart from this, the other examples are 19:48; 22:4,23,24 and Ac. 4:21; 22:30
If you have access to BDF [ Blass-Debrunner-Funk: Greek Grammar of the New 
Testament, Chicago 1961 ] you might like to look at ss. 267.2

BTW, did you note that rare NT form, the optative in:
TO TIS AN EIH MEIZWN AOUTWN. ?

11 of the 12 occurrences of the optative of EIMI are in Luke-Acts.




Regards
Maurice




Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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