[B-Greek] Luke 12:4 PERISSOTERON TI
james
no_coldpop at hotpop.com
Fri Sep 19 04:30:51 EDT 2003
Dear all,
Greetings. My name is James Pantou from Indonesia. I have been a lurker (yet
an eager learner) for a year now, and now its time for me to ask my first
question (If Jonathan Robie called himself a "little greek", then I will be
a much much smaller greek :) ). So, here goes a question from one of the
much much smaller greek.
My question is about Luke 12:4
LEGW DE hUMIN TOIS FILOIS MOU, MH FOBHQHTE APO TWN APOKTEINONTWN TO SWMA KAI
META TAUTA MH ECONTWN PERISSOTERON TI POIHSAI
Can my teachers here explain to me to which verb the phrase PERISSOTERON TI
is connected to? (I understand that both the comparative adjective
PERISSOTERON and the indefinite adjective TI have the accusative case) Is it
the participle ECONTWN or the infinitive POIHSAI that has TI PERISSOTERON as
it's object? If the participle, is it simply because of the word order or is
there some other grammatical rules that can explain the meaning of the
clause META TAUTA MH ECONTWN PERISSOTERON TI POIHSAI?
My impression from the translations I've read is to translate the clause as
"... after those things having nothing more to do" and not "... not having
to do anything more." Perhaps these mean the same, but why the first and not
the last? I feel there's still something more that I have to learn regarding
the construction of this clause. Thank you for shedding the light for me
regarding this.
Kind Regards,
James Pantou
Jakarta Barat, Indonesia
no_coldpop at hotpop.com
PS: I have tried the list's database but couldnt find any hits on Luke 12
from the discussions.
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