TOU GNWNAI AUTON Phillipians 3 9
Eddie Van Gent
vangent at ihug.co.nz
Sat May 6 19:44:55 EDT 2000
Greetings
According to various grammars GNWNAI is a 2nd Aorist Active Infinitive. However, the 2nd Aorist Active is EGNWN with the stem GNW and according to the rules an infinitive is only a deponent if that particular tense is deponent in the finite verb form.
Second Aorist Active Infinitives have the same morpheme as the Present Infinitive so the word to be 2nd Aorist Active would normally be GNWN - being derived from the following- GNW + EEN (EIN endings were formerly EEN, which comes into play when contraction rules are applied) .This then would become GNWN.
To get GNWNAI one could take the 2nd Aorist Stem GNW + HNAI (which is the normal 2nd Aorist Passive morpheme) and end up with GNWNAI after applying the rules of contraction:-
W + H = W
I can't find any reference in the following major Greek scholar's books that GNWNAI is a 2nd Aorist Passive Deponent:- Bill Mounce, Max Zerwick/Mary Grosvener, Barbara & Timothy Friberg,
Obviously if GNWNAI is in fact passive, the meaning of Phillipians 3: 9 and context could alter quite significantly.
Eddie Van Gent
New Zealand
email: vangent at ihug.co.nz
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