[B-Greek] Acts 22,17;18A

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 9 06:42:42 EDT 2004


At 8:31 PM -0700 4/8/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>EGENETO DE MOI hUPOSTREYANTI EIS IEROUSALHM KAI
>PROSEUCOMENOU MOU EN TWi hIERWi GENESQAI ME EN
>EKSTASEI, KAI IDEIN AUTON LEGONTA MOI, SPEUSON KAI
>EXELQE EN TACEI EX IEROUSALHM,
>
>PROSEUCOMENOU MOU is identified as a Genitive Absolute
>because its subject is different from that of the main
>clause. What is the subject of the main clause here?

The subject of the main clause (predicate EGENETO MOI) is the compound
infinitive phrase--functioning like a substantive clause--GENESQAI ME ...
KAI IDEIN ...): lit. "me to come to be in a trance and to see ..." which in
standard English would become "that I came to be in a trance and saw ..."

Older Attic Greek would have put that genitive absolute into another
participle in the dative thus: EGENETO DE MOI hUPOYTREYANTI EIS IEEROUSALHM
KAI PROSEUCOMENWi EN TWi hIERWi GENESQAI ME EN EKSTASEI KAI IDEIN ... ""And
it happened to me when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the
temple that I came to be in a trance and saw ..."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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