Lk 18:13; TWi hAMARTWLWi
Steven Lo Vullo
doulos at merr.com
Sun Dec 2 01:47:35 EST 2001
On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 12:14 AM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
> (3) As far as I can tell, the construction personal
> pronoun-article-adjective occurs 5 times in the NT (Luke 6.24; John
> 6.70; Rom 15.1; Gal 6.1; Eph 3.8; as I said, Accordance tags hAMARTWLWi
> in Luke 18.13 as a noun). Keeping in mind the analogy of personal
> pronoun-article-noun above, I think we can see that understanding the
> adjectives in these cases as substantival is not only perfectly
> natural, but preferable. And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I
> think taking them attributively involves thinking in English rather
> than Greek. I can't think of one good reason why we should understand
> any of these as attributive, especially with the analogy afforded us by
> the construction with nouns above.
Instead of:
"And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I think taking them
attributively involves thinking in English rather than Greek."
Read:
"And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I think taking them
appositively involves thinking in Greek rather than English (as I know I
will be accused of)."
The lateness of the hour is taking its toll!
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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