Sentences in Greek

Eric S. Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Wed Aug 7 11:57:24 EDT 2002


> But ... I cannot believe that the author really meant 1:3-14 to be one
> continuous thoughtflow, even if a "literal" translation would make it a
> continuous and convoluted series of subordinate clauses (hypotactic
> construction, I believe it's called, vs. paratactic) with no stopping
> except to take a breath.

E.g., N-A 26 takes the EN hWi clauses at 1:7, 1:11, and 1:13 as new
sentences. In fact, they Capitalize the EN, which makes these verses
almost like the start of a new paragraph. Can you demonstrate that EN hWi
should NOT be read as the beginning of a new thought/sentence, even though
it may not be "usual" Greek to start a sentence/paragraph with EN + a
relative pronoun?



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