[B-Greek] Acts 17,16

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Thu Apr 1 23:27:22 EST 2004


On Apr 1, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Eddie Mishoe wrote:

>
> EN DE TAIS AQHNAIS EKDECOMENOU AUTOUS TOU PAULOU,
> PARWXUNETO TO PNEUMA  AUTOU EN AUTWi QEWROUNTOS
> KATEIDWLON OUSAN THN POLIN
>
> Wallace lists OUSAN as "indirect discourse" per
> Parsons/Culy (I don't have the source they have
> sited). Can someone show me how this participle could
> be considered "indirect discourse"? (Who was involved
> in the "direct" discourse and what was imagined to
> have been said?)

Certain verbs sometimes have as their object a participial clause 
expressing indirect discourse. Remember, indirect discourse--maybe not 
a good name for the phenomenon--may indicate mental activity as well as 
speech. In this case QEWROUNTOS (a verbal of perception) has as its 
object the participial clause KATEIDWLON OUSAN THN POLIN. Though in the 
accusative case, THN POLIN functions as the semantic subject of OUSAN 
and KATEIDWLON as the predicate adjective. Paul's original thought, 
from which the indirect discourse derives, is something like, "hH POLIS 
ESTIN KATEIDWLOS" ("The city is full of idols!").
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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