Mark 1:6a

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Fri Dec 6 23:35:47 EST 2002


On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 09:41 PM, B. D. Colt wrote:

> Mark 1:6a
> KAI HN hO IWANNHS ENDEDUMENOS TRICAS
> KAMHLOU KAI ZWNHN DERMATINEN  PERI THN
> OSFUN AUTOU . . .
>
> The morphological information in Logos indicates that  ENDEDUMENOS is
> a passive participle.  If the participle is passive, why are TRICAS
> and ZWNEN DERMATINEN is the accusative?

Hi Barbara:

This is a phenomenon sometimes found with words that in the active may 
be used in a double accusative person-thing construction. ENDUW is one 
of those words. Note, for example, Mark 15.20:

ENEDUSAN AUTON TA hIMATIA AUTOU
"they put on him his garments"

Such verbs that take this construction sometimes, when used in the 
passive, convert the accusative of person to the subject of the verb 
while retaining the case of the accusative of thing. With the active 
form Mark 1.6a might look something like this:

IWANNHS ENDUEI/ENEDUSEN/ENDEDUKEN hEAUTON TRICAS KAMHLOU KAI ZWNHN 
DERMATINHN

When the verb is used in the passive voice, hEAUTON becomes the subject 
(in this case one and the same with the subject in the active) and 
TRICAS and ZWNHN retain their case.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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