Use of preposition phrase in Titus 2:6-7
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Nov 15 12:34:05 EST 2002
At 10:51 AM -0600 11/15/02, Rob Matlack wrote:
>(6) TOUS NEWTEROUS hWSAUTWS PARAKALEI SWFRONEIN (7) PERI PANTA SEAUTON
>PARECOMENOS
>TUPON KALWN ERGWN ...
>
>Most English translations that I have looked at take PERI PANTA to modify
>PARECOMENOS.
>However, ISTM that it would fit better modifying SWFRONEIN. Note that
>author begins
>his discussion of each group with the designation of that group, i.e. v2
>PRESBUTAS, v3
>PRESBUTIDAS v6 TOUS NEWTEROUS. Would SEAUTON not fit this pattern thus
>placing PERI
>PANTA in the previous discussion?
Thoughts, that's all I have here. It looks to me like NA27 punctuates it so
that it would read as you take it. But I don't think that SEAUTON belongs
in the sequence of older men, older women and younger men; rather I think
that SEAUTON PARECOMENOS TUPON KALWN ERGWN is to be construed with the
imperative PARAKALEI and I think that PERI PANTA does indeed belong to the
participial phrase also. In this instance I think Iver would rightly insist
that PERI PANTA as a phrase following SWFRONEIN would have very little
emphasis, whereas it has a good deal of force at the head of the
participial phrase.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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