[B-Greek] Col. 1:13a causal pronoun FOLLOW Up2
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 16 14:11:49 EDT 2004
At 10:16 AM -0700 4/16/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>I really don't have much to add, but I think I can
>make a clarification IN ENGLISH illustrated in Greek
>that may be causing some ambiguity.
>
>Dr. Conrad previously wrote;
>
>"In Mt 28:6 DEUTE IDETE TON TOPON hOPOU EKEITO, the
>relative clause hOPOU
>EKEITO is adjectival and has TON TOPON as its
>antecedent."
>
>I agree with this, but it should be pointed out that
>syntactically Adverbs do not DIRECTLY modify
>Nouns/Pronouns. If one takes hOPOU as an Adverb, then
>it is adverbial to the verb WITHIN ITS OWN clause
>(EKEITO), not DIRECTLY to the antecedent in the main
>clause (TON TOPON). The whole clause of which this
>Adverb is a part is adjectival and modifies the noun,
>but the Adverb does not DIRECTLY LINK to the Noun. I
>can't speak to this in Greek, even though I have tried
>to illustrate an English point with Dr. Conrad's
>example. A relative clause is a sentence within a
>sentence.
True enough, but hOPOU is not a simple adverb modifying a verb, adjective
or another adverb, but rather it is a RELATIVE ADVERB that serves to link a
relative clause with an antecedent; hOPOU is usually equivalent, as in the
above illustrative sentence, to EN hWi: so that it's "the place where (in
which) he was laid."
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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