[B-Greek] Hebrews 10:16 - Why the different in case for the preposition "EPI"

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Aug 11 06:52:04 EDT 2003


At 4:24 AM -0300 8/11/03, Erich Vaughan Burton wrote:
>DIDOUS NOMOUN MOU EPI KARDIAS AUTWN KAI EPI TWN DIANOIWN AUTWN EPIGRAQW AUTOS
>
>When "KARDIAS" follows "EPI" in the above passage,
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>it is in the "accusative" case,
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>but when "TWN DIANOIWN" follows the prepostion
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>the case changes to the "genitive".
>
>Why?
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>Is it because of the different verbs "DIDWMI" and "EPIGRAFW" that
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>these adverbial ?? phrases are associated with?
>
>Or is there a different meaning conveyed by changing the case?

Here too, as in your previous question about Heb 6:10 your text as cited
seems questionable and I'm wondering where you've derived it. NA27/UBS4
reads, DIDOUS NOMOUS MOU EPI KARDIAS AUTWN KAI EPI THN DIANOIAN AUTWN
EPIGRAYW AUTOUS. Ah, now I see that you're reading either MT or TR, which
does indeed have EPI TWN DIANOIWN.

Actually EPI can take genitive, dative, or accusative objects; the genitive
with EPI tends to indicate less specific, more general area, but in this
instance, I think that the reading of TR and MT is dubious and that the
reading of UBS4/NA27 is clearly preferable.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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