[B-Greek] Acts 21,39 (final)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 9 06:26:48 EDT 2004


At 7:11 PM -0700 4/8/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>...DEOMAI DE SOU, EPITREYON MOI LALHSAI PROS TON LAON
>
>Could I ask someone to identify how these last few
>words/phrases function syntactically?
>
>Culy/Parsons give MOI and LALHSAI as:
>
>EPITREYON
>MOI (indirect object)
>LALHSAI (direct object of EPITREYON)
>PROS TON LAON


I would say that the entire infinitive phrase LALHSAI PROS TON LAON ("to
speak to the people") is the direct object of EPITREYON.
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Carl W. Conrad
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