[B-Greek] Rev 6

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 5 09:17:06 EDT 2003


At 9:16 AM -0400 9/5/03, Ron wrote:
>I was observing in Revelation 6 that the first of the three horsemen are
>are sitting upon their respective horses (preposition EPI), and the
>fourth is sitting on his horse (preposition EPANW).
>
>Does anyone have an idea as to the significance of such a change in that
>context?

There may be differences of opinion on this, but my own opinion is that
this is nothing more than rhetorical variation between "on" and "upon"
--and that there's no real semantic distinction being intended by the shift
from one preposition to a more-or-less synonymous one.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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