Sentences in Greek
Eric S. Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Thu Aug 8 13:12:12 EDT 2002
If you are right, then it is proper and normal for N-A 26 to put a period
before the EN hWi clauses and treat them as the beginning of a new
sentence. I'm torn between the rambling linking of liturgical phrases
understanding that Carl has quite rightly (to me) noted (not unlike some
of the better extemporaneous "prophetic" prayers or glossolalia
"interpretations" I've heard in some churches), and the also very valid
view that breaks this into sentences -- without, I don't believe, losing
anything major in terms of understanding, or even in terms of thinking "in
Greek."
> Eric:
>
> Your wrote:
>
> > even though
> > it may not be "usual" Greek to start a sentence/paragraph with EN + a
> > relative pronoun?
> >
> A question of comparative syntax here. I get my grammars mixed up
> sometimes. I know in Latin it's very common--even a mark of style--to begin
> what we would have to translate as a new sentence with a relative pronoun--a
> relative pronoun that may indeed be the object of a preposition. I guess I
> always kind of thought the same thing was true of Greek. Is it?
>
> Paul
>
> ===============================
> Paul O. Wendland
> Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
> wendlanp at wls.wels.net
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