FILOTIMOUMENON in Rom 15.20

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Oct 3 23:33:13 EDT 2002


For George Somsel <Polycarp66 at aol.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:31:51 EDT

hOUTWS DE FOLOTIMOUMENON EUAGGELIZESQAI . . .

In a message dated 10/2/2002 12:31:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
slovullo at mac.com writes:

>Moo, in his commentary on Romans, says that the participle
>PHILOTIMOUMENON in Rom 15.20 modifies the infinitive PEPLHRWKENAI in v.
>19. This seems to be correct, since the accusative case of the
>participle agrees with the accusative ME, "subject" of the infinitive
>in the result clause marked by hWSTE in v. 19. However, does it strike
>anyone as odd that a participial clause would be appended with DE? I
>don't recall ever seeing anything like this before.
>


You might consider 1 cor 8.12 where there is an identical phrase with a
different verb substituting and without an infinitive but with a finite
verb.

hOUTWS DE hAMARTANOUNTES TOUS ADELFOUS . . . hAMARTANETE
gfsomsel



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