[B-Greek] Acts 23,6 (final)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Apr 12 05:58:06 EDT 2004
At 5:52 PM -0700 4/11/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>ANDRES ADELFOI, EGW FARISAIOS EIMI, hUIOS FARISAIWN
>PERI ELPIDOS KAI ANASTASEWS NEKRWN KRINOMAI.
>
>What would have to change grammatically for this final
>sentence to be considered a question, not a statement?
You're asking whether PERI ELPIDOS KAI ANASTASEWS NEKRWN KRINOMAI might be
a question or whether with some addition or alteration might be deemed a
question. Personally I don't think it is a question as presently formulated
but rather a statement of the impropriety of Paul's being put on trial or
condemned for believing what Pharisees have traditionally held. I really
think that, in view of the formal character of this public declaration,
that an interrogative intent would have been signaled by some inversion of
the word-order or by the insertion of a particle such as ARA before that
clause beginning with PERI ELPIDOS.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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