[B-Greek] Preposition example needed
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 22 16:16:21 EDT 2003
At 3:58 PM -0400 9/22/03, bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:
>I've been poking around unsuccessfully with Accordance this afternoon
>looking for a *simple* example to use for class. In particular, I'd like to
>be able to illustrate the added specificity that a preposition can make that
>is ambiguous with case alone. To do so, I've been trying to find an example
>of the same basic phrase written both with and without the preposition,
>e.g., "the love of God" written both as "hH AGAPH TOU QEOU" *and* as "hH
>AGAPH EK TOU QEOU" (or something similar). I'm not concerned with what the
>head word or modifier word is, just that it is a relatively simple example
>and that there is a parallel example--preferably both from the NT, though
>LXX is OK (& perhaps even Ap. Fathers). There is a similar example in Smyth,
>sect. 1637, but is, of course, from classical lit. Any suggestions?
Rod, have you tried PISTIS? I just did a search for PISTIS followed within
2 words by a preposition governing either genitive or accusative. In
several instances the prepositional phrase doesn't really belong with
PISTIS, but in many its does, most frequently it's PISTIS + EIS + acc. I
don't know that I'd characterize any of the prepositional phrases with
genitive as construing with PISTIS, however, except for Acts 3:16 hH PISTIS
hH DI' AUTOU.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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