[B-Greek] Translation Question from Clement:

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 22 13:40:50 EDT 2003


At 12:45 PM -0400 8/22/03, Granby at SAFe-mail.net wrote:
>I need some help with the following sentence. I don't have an exact
>reference but it can found in the Appendix of Nunn's Syntax recently
>posted by Mr. Carl Conrad. (Appendix 2, Page 7). Epistle of Clement to the
>Corinthians, an excerpt on the martyrdom of Peter and Paul.
>
>PETRON, hOS DIA ZHLON ADIKON OUX hENA OUDE DUO ALLA PLEIONAS UPHNEGKEN
>PONOUS, KAI hOUTW MARTURHSAS EPOREUQH EIS TOn OFEILOMENON TOPON THS DOXHS.
>(corrected)
>
>Why is PETRON in the accusative case, the only way I can sort of make
>sense of this whole thing is if he is the subject.
>
>My rough translation:
>
>Peter,he who endured not one or two, but many evils due to unrighteous
>zeal, thus having born witness was travelled into the owed place of glory.

It's in the larger context: the sentence begins thus: LABWMEN PRO TOUS
OFQALMOUS hHMWN TOUS AGAQOUS APOSTOLOUS: PETRON, hOS ...  Thus PETRON is
accusative because it is in apposition to TOUS AGAQOUS APOSTOLOUS; So you
cold take that sentence thus: "Let's take before our eyes the good
apostles: Peter, who ..."

The only problem is that one would expect other apostles to be named, their
names also in the accusative; but instead the author starts a new sentence
regarding Paul with the apostle's name in the nominative, DIA ZHLON KAI
ERIN PAULOS hUPOMONHS ...
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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