Constituent Order: Acts 20:28 TOU IDIOU
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Oct 22 16:29:55 EDT 2002
At 12:30 PM -0700 10/22/02, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
>Here is a constituent order problem within a text that has other
>difficulties.
>NA27
>
>ACTS 20:28 PROSECETE hEAUTOIS KAI PANTI TWi POIMNIWi, EN hWi hUMAS TO PNEUMA
>TO hAGION EQETO EPISKOPOUS POIMAINEIN THN EKKLHSIAN TOU QEOU, hHN
>PERIEPOIHSATO DIA TOU hAIMATOS TOU IDIOU.
>
>Greek New Testament: Byzantine/Majority Text
>Compiled by Dr. Maurice A. Robinson.
>
>ACTS 20:28 PROSECETE OUN EAUTOIS KAI PANTI TW POIMNIW EN W UMAS TO PNEUMA TO
>AGION EQETO EPISKOPOUS POIMAINEIN THN EKKLHSIAN TOU KURIOU KAI QEOU HN
>PERIEPOIHSATO DIA TOU IDIOU AIMATOS
>
>
>What would should one make of
>
>MT: DIA TOU IDIOU AIMATOS
>NA27: DIA TOU hAIMATOS TOU IDIOU
>
>Before addressing this it might be a good idea to review the entire question
>of QEOU/KURIOU. There are extensive discussions of this in H.Alford, B.M.
>Metzger (Textual Comm. GNT), CK Barrett (ICC), J.A. Fitzmyer (AB).
>
>I am not asking which is the original text, but what semantic significance
>can be attributed to the different placement of IDIOU.
I know that Iver will probably hold a different view on this, but for my
part, I don't think there's any significant semantic difference to the two
arrangementss of the attributive adjective; if there is any, I would expect
that the placement of TOU IDIOU after TOU hAIMATOS would be a bit more
emphatic.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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