[B-Greek] IDIAi in 1Cor 12:11
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Aug 26 13:09:36 EDT 2003
At 10:08 AM -0400 8/26/03, Jennifer Chiou wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>1Cor 12:11 PANTA DE TAUTA ENERGEI TO hEN KAI TO AUTO PNEUMA DIAIROUN
>IDIAi hEKASTWi KAQWS BOULETAI.
>
>BAGD has IDIAi here as "adv. by oneself, privately". So does
>Zerwick-Grosvenor ("adv. individually").
>
>But I have not seen an explanation on why the feminine form. Is it "in
>his own counsel" with BOULHi omitted?
>ie, "But the one and the same Spirit works all these (gifts),
>distributing in his own counsel to each (person) just as he wills."
I think all that can be said with any assurance is: (a) this form,
adverbial in sense with dative sg. fem. ending, is attested at least as
early as Herodotus (Ionic IDIHi) and continues to be common; (b) it is
comparable/parallel to several other such fem. sg. dat. adverbs: DHMOSIAi
("publicly, at public expense"), LAQRAi ("stealthily"), KOINHi
("commonly"), ALLHi ("otherwise"). I've always supposed that there was once
an explicit, later implicit noun hODWi, ("way") attached to it. See Smyth
§§341ff.
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Carl W. Conrad
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