[B-Greek] TO IWANNOU in Mark 11.30

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 19 09:07:11 EST 2003


At 9:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Lew wrote:
>B-Greek
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>    GMark says in 11.30, TO BAPTISMA TO IWANNOU EX OURAROU HN H EX ANQRWPWN
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>    My question is Why TO IWANNOU, not TOU  IWANNOU?

Well, it could have been TO TOU IWANNOU, but the function of the TO is to
indicate clearly that IWANNOU is "attributive" to TO BAPTISMA; although you
can convert this to English, "John's baptism" or "the baptism of John" or
still better "the baptizing done by John," the force of the word order is
just a bit like an appositive: "the baptism, the one of John." That is to
say, the TO is substantival in force, repeating the phrase TO BAPTISMA in a
single substantive to which then the genitive is added.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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