Datives with Prepositions

Ron Fay roncfay at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 23 17:05:51 EST 2002



>But in fact EN + dative is NOT always locative; if it were, it would be
>consistently turned to English "in" or "at"; but the phrases listed by
>Heinz Schmitz in his original post are not locative at all; to call them
>"locative" is, I think, not really all that helpful. When John the Baptist
>says (Mk 1:8), EGW EBAPTISA hUMAS hUDATI, AUTOS DE BAPTISEI hUMAS EN
>PNEUMATI hAGIWi, EN PNEUMATI hAGIWi is instrumental (just as is the hUDATI
>without any EN in the preceding clause).

It was not my intention to say that all constructs with EN are locative, my 
intention was to point out that it was the preposition that carried the 
force (or the entire phrase, if you wish), not the case of the object.  
Obviously there are instrumental uses and others as well, I was just using 
locative as an example.

- Ron

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Ron Fay
Ph. D. student and New Testament Teaching Fellow
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield, IL.
roncfay at hotmail.com



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