Heb 13:5

Dmitriy Reznik dpreznik at usa.net
Sat Jan 8 11:52:52 EST 2000


On 01/08/00, ""Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>" wrote:
> At 10:26 AM -0600 1/8/00, Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >In Heb 13:5 is ARKOUMENOI a participle with a meaning of imperative, or its
> >meaning is participle with a verb "to be" omitted? Is it an ellipsis then?
> 
> AFILARGUROS hO TROPOS, ARKOUMENOI TOIS PAROUSIN. ...
> 
>I would understand the text of the first clause therefore with
> an ESTW and a hUMWN: "Let your manner be not-in-love-with-money" and the
> participle with an implicit imperative ESTE, so that you're really quite
> right: ARKOUMENOI does function as a participle here: "contenting
> yourselves with your present circumstances."

Dear Carl, 

Thank you for the answer. While reading it, I got another thought: can this 
participle have a meaning of an adverb relating to that implicit ESTW in 
the first clause? "Let your manner be not-in-love-with-money..." How? 
"contenting
yourselves with your present circumstances."

Dmitriy



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