[B-Greek] Syntax of Mark 15:39 VR
Steven Lo Vullo
slovullo at mac.com
Thu Apr 24 03:05:57 EDT 2003
On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Alan Hultberg wrote:
> Does the variant reading on Mark 15:39 found in D make sense (IDWN hO
> KENTURIWN ... OTI hOUTWS AUTON KRAXANTA KAI EXEPNEUSEN EIPEN ...)? As
> I see it, either AUTOS and its participle ought to be in the
> nominative case and KAI dropped (as A and other witnesses -- "seeing
> that he, crying out in this way, expired), or the hOTI ought to be
> dropped and EKPVEUW be made an accusative participle ("seeing him
> crying out in this way and expiring"). Can the accusative function
> with hOTI and the participle be correlated with a finite verb? I know
> that it's not uncommon to encounter variant readings that don't make
> sense, but am I missing something here?
Just off the cuff, Alan, it seems to me that after IDWN (verbal of
perception) we might expect **either** the accusative pronoun with
accusative participle in indirect discourse **or** hOTI marking
indirect discourse, but not both. But I suppose stranger phenomena have
been encountered.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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