antecedents

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 17 15:41:09 EDT 2000


on 07/17/00 11:37 AM, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:

> on 07/17/00 10:49 AM, Rick H Duggin wrote:
> 
>> Jeremiah 39:4 (LXX) warns that Zedekiah will not
>> be saved out of the hand of the Chaldeans,
>> hOTI   PARADOSEI PARADOQHSETAI  EIS  CEIRAS
>> BASILEWS  BABULWNOS,  KAI  LALHSEI  STOMA
>> AUTOU  PROS  STOMA  AUTOU,  KAI  hOI  OFQALMOI
>> AUTOU  TOUS  OFQALMOUS  AUTOU  OYONTAI.
>> 
>> As I was reading this passage, I was a little uncertain
>> about the pronoun/antecedent connection.    I think the
>> "he" in LALHSEI  refers to Nebuchadnezzar, not to
>> Zedekiah.   Is this right?
> 
> Rick,
> 
> It looks to me like Zedekiah is the subject of  LALHSEI and OYONTAI. Why?
> Because Zedekiah is the center of the action in the first two verbs SWQHi
> and  PARADOSEI PARADOQHSETAI. I would suspect that he is still the center of
> attention in LALHSEI and  OYONTAI.  I have not spent much time on this and
> could be wrong about it.

And I was wrong. If I had just read verse five I would not have gone the
other way on this.  Nebuchadnezzar is clearly the agent of EISELEUSETAI so I
suspect that he is also the agent of  LALHSEI, since both SWQHi and
PARADOSEI PARADOQHSETAI present Zedekiah in a non-agent role. This is what
some linguists call disableing a participant by linguistic means. Zedekiah
is not acting but being acted upon here.

Clay


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