[B-Greek] Acts 23,35
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Apr 12 20:01:12 EDT 2004
At 4:26 PM -0700 4/12/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>DIAKOUSOMAI SOU, EFH, hOTAN KAI hOI KATHGOROI SOU
>PARAGENWNTAI KELEUSAS EN TWi PRAITWRIWi TOU hHRWiDOU
>FULASSESQAI AUTON.
>
>Culy/Parsons note that SOU is the genitive object, and
>translates it, "I will hear your case..." Can
>DIAKOUSOMAI SOU also be understood as "I will hear
>from you (later)" ? (Genitive of source??)
No, I don't think so: AKOUW regularly takes a genitive of the person heard
and an accusative of the thing heard; I would think that DIAKOUW follows
the same rule.
>Also, Culy/Parsons note with reference to KELEUSAS
>(attendent circumstance of EFH) "there is no reason
>why the aorist participle cannot refer to an action
>that occurred subsequent to the main verb." I seem to
>recall a study in which it was observed that aorist
>participles that are subsequent to main verbs (even
>presents??) generally are placed AFTER the main verb.
>Is this the generally used syntactical position in
>Greek to denote a subsequent action with an aorist participle?
Yes, I think that when the action of the participle PRECEDES that of the
main verb it more the participle itself generally precedes the main verb.
In a message of Wed, 14 Oct 1998 entitled "Adverbial aor ptcs of
subsequent time rfc (LONG)" I reviewed a number of instances and was
generally rather skeptical of the assertion that they represented
subsequent action. Nevertheless, I certainly think the aorist ptc could
refer to the same time as that of the mean verb as in the present text:
"I'll hear you out after your accusers have arrived,' he said, giving
orders therewith that he (Paul) be kept in custody in the praetorium of
Herod."
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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