[B-Greek] Acts 22,17;18 follow up

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 9 07:55:00 EDT 2004


I am not understanding the idea here then of the
"subject" of the main clause. It appears that the
subject in both clauses is "I" (Paul). Could someone
explain how there are two different subjects in these
clauses?


--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:
> 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)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/


=====
Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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