Phil 2:2, why TO AUTO accusative?
Dave Washburn
dwashbur at nyx.net
Wed Jun 6 10:59:13 EDT 2001
> My question is:
>
> Tell me again why the first TO AUTO should be tagged as accusative;
> Why not nominative?
>
> Friberg and Friberg tags it as accusative. Is this right, if so
> what's the justification? What are the arguments one can use to tag
> it as nominative? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
[snip]
Hi Mike,
BAGD translates it "think the same thing" which is similar to the
way I've always understood it; idiomatically I'd translate it "be of the
same mind." Acts 28:22 uses a similar construction (with hA) as
do some other passages.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"You just keep thinking, Butch. That's what you're good at."
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