Mark 1:6a

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Sat Dec 7 00:04:41 EST 2002


On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:35 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:

> 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

In the above example, while trying to cover all the bases with tenses, 
I forgot to include the imperfect ENEDUEN, which would be the most 
natural tense to use when describing someone's custom or habit in past 
time.

> 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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