OTI PANTA MOU MEMNHSQE

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Oct 18 12:31:39 EDT 2002


At 10:13 AM -0700 10/18/02, Francisco Orozco wrote:
>Hello,
>
>	1 Cor 11:2 reads:
>
>	EPAINW DE UMAS ADELFOI OTI PANTA MOU MEMNHESQE KAI KAQWS
>PAREDWKA UMIN TAS PARADOSEIS KATEXETE
>
>	Questions: How should I understand PANTA? Is it "Accusative of
>Respect" (Wallace 203 - he does not refer to this passage) or is it
>"Pendent Accusative" (Wallace 198)? Does it refer to TAS PARADOSEIS?

I think it's best to view it as an accusative of respect; "in all matters"
or "in everything." Wallace's "Pendent Accusative" appears to me to
incorporate two very different things: (1) an initial accusative intended
to be an object of a verb but abandoned in favor of a new construction; the
usual word for that is "anacoluthon" or "grammatical non-sequitur"; (2) an
accusative of respect placed at the beginning of a clause to indicate the
topic about which the speaker/writer is going to say something--but why not
just simply CALL that an "accusative of respect" rather than create this
sort of "grab-bag" category in which to dump loose-ends of grammatical
analysis?
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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