Dative in Lk. 2:9
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 9 19:20:42 EST 2002
At 5:10 PM -0500 12/9/02, Tracey Ray Lane wrote:
>Greetings, every one,
>
>Lk. 2:9 reads in part: KAI AGGELOS KURIOU EPESTH AUTOIS. . . Is it
>possible that AUTOIS is a dative of place (Sm. 1531)? Perhaps, then, the
>translation would be that the angel "stood among them." In what other ways
>do you see this term identified?
The verb EFISTAMAI is regularly used with a dative of person or place that
I hardly see why it should be thought necessary to specify some "kind" of
dative. EPI in composition means "upon," "at," "in the power of." Stoic
ethics has a classic distinction between TA EF' hHMIN and TA MH EF'
hHMIN--"things (that are) in our power" and "thing (that are) not in our
power."
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Carl W. Conrad
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