[B-Greek] Colossians 1:4 Double Accusatives?

William E. Turner Jr. weturner777 at hotmail.com
Tue May 27 00:24:32 EDT 2003


B-Greek:

I am fresh out of second year Greek and I am working through Colossians with the hopes of translation and diagramming.  My questions deal with Colossians 1:4.

First, is THN PISTIN and THN AGAPHN a double accusative of the participle AKOUSANTES?  

Secondly, in regards to THN AGAPHN hHN ECETE is this another double accusative with THN AGAPHN functioning as the object and then hHN functioning as the complement or should it be seen as a predicate accusative?  Wallace seems to rule out a predicate accusative since he states that they must be joined by either an equative participle or infinitive  (190-192).  Or am I completely wrong on both accounts?  In short, how does this passage function syntactically?
Lastly, in determining the syntax of various passages is there any tool which I would be able to reference in comparing notes and checking my choices (often guesses) of the syntax?  I am looking for something more comprehensive than Wallace's GGBB.  Besides parsing help is this what Zerwick and Grosvenor provides?

Your thoughts (and corrections) would be greatly appreciated,

Will Turner
weturner777 at hotmail.com



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