2 Cor 12:7

Steven Lo Vullo doulos at merr.com
Sun Dec 16 17:37:12 EST 2001


On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 04:05  PM, c stirling bartholomew wrote:

> on 12/16/01 1:45 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
>
>> Even if DIO is authentic, it is not hard to see how, in the
>> course of the dictation or composition of a letter, the thoughts run
>> ahead, and an instrumental dative indicating cause is left "hanging" at
>> the beginning of a sentence.
>
> Steven,
>
> OK, but first you might try and find one UNDISPUTED case of a DIO clause
> constituent which is located to the left of DIO. I have been looking 
> for one
> and as yet have not found an example.

Clay:

After sending my last post, I went back and pondered the text and 
realized that it is not as awkward to take THi hUPERBOLHi TWN 
APOKALUYEWN with what precedes as I first thought. If we take 
FEIDOMAI ... APOKALUYEWN as  compound sentence, with two independent 
clauses joined by KAI, and with FEIDOMAI implied in the second 
independent clause, this makes good sense: "But I refrain, lest anyone 
credit to me beyond what he sees in me or hears from me, and [I refrain] 
because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations." Paul has 
already said in v. 5 that in his revelations he "heard unspeakable 
words, which a man is not permitted to speak." So he not only refrains 
from boasting about his visions so that people would not credit him with 
more than was apparent to them, but also because it would be 
impermissible to speak about these "surpassingly great" revelations." If 
this is correct, there is no need to posit a constituent of a DIO clause 
located before DIO.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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