Phil. 1:23

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sun Jun 23 16:16:54 EDT 2002


Tony,

on 6/23/02 11:04 AM, tmcos at canada.com wrote:

> THN EPIQUMIAN EXWN EIS TO ANALUSAI KAI SUN XRISTWi
> EINAI, POLLW MALLOV KREISSON.
> 
> Is there a participle phrase in this sentence?

THN EPIQUMIAN EXWN looks like the top level of a participle constituent
where the following two infinitives TO ANALUSAI KAI SUN XRISTWi EINAI define
the content of EPIQUMIAN, answering the question, What did Paul desire?


> I am
> trying to make sense of TO ANALUSAI KAI SUN XRISTWi
> EINAI. Does this construct imply that with Paul's
> departing, breaking camp, or weighing anchor (as
> ANALUSAI can be translated)he would be immediately
> "with" (SUN) "Christ" (XRISTWi)? I am gathering this
> from the context which seems to indicate that Paul is
> anticipating his own death.

Don't think KAI can be used to support any conjecture about the timing of
this. You might find this notion " immediately" somewhere else in the text
but it isn't a semantic feature of  TO ANALUSAI KAI SUN XRISTWi EINAI.

greetings,

Clay

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