Genitive plural non-determinitve
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 25 16:59:13 EDT 2002
At 10:31 AM -0700 9/25/02, Matthew Ferris wrote:
>Acts 15:35 contains the phrase KAI EUAGGELIZOMENOI META KAI hETERWN POLLWN TON
>LOGON TOU KURIOU
>which is translated:
>
>and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
>
>The implication here is that they preached with many other people. Why
>could it
>not be rendered that they preached many other things? In other words,
>since the
>genitive plural is non determinitive of gender, could it also be rendered this
>way?
It's true that this genitive plural could theoretically be neuter, but (a)
META with a genitive is normally used with a complement indicating persons;
and (b) what else--that could be called "lots of other things" do you
suppose would be the object of preaching when one preaches "the word of the
Lord?"
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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