Mt. 26: 26, Brachylogy and/or Ellipse?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Nov 14 14:33:13 EST 2002
At 2:26 PM -0500 11/14/02, Tracey Ray Lane wrote:
>Greetings, everyone,
>
>Mt. 26: 26 reads, in part: "LABWN hO IHSOUS ARTON KAI EULOGHSAS EKLASEN
>KAI DOUS TOIS MAQHTAIS EIPEN. . ." This seems to be an instance wherein
>the definitions of both brachylogy and ellipse overlap. the element that I
>see being left out is ARTON. However, if it were included in each instance
>where it "would make the thought or the grammatical construction complete"
>(Smyth, 3017), there probably would be pronouns in its place. Would this
>still be an example of brachylogy or ellipse?
In my opinion this is the very standard ellipsis of an element already
stated as object of the preceding participle and pretty obviously
understood as the implicit object of EULOGHSAS and DOUS.
--
Carl W. Conrad
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