[B-Greek] Col 2:16;17
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Apr 18 20:25:25 EDT 2004
At 3:24 PM -0700 4/18/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>MH OUN TIS hUMAS KRINETW EN BRWSEI KAI EN POSEI H EN
>MEREI hEORTHS H NEOMHNIAS H SABBATWN
>
>hA ESTIN SKIA TWN MELLONTWN, TO DE SWMA TOU CRISTOU
>
>Why is SKIA fem. sing. and hA neut. pl.? I was
>expecting SKIA to be a plural?
I'd say (a) that hA as a relative pronoun refers to all those items over
which the addressees are urged not to allow condemnation, and (b) that
SKIA, the predicate adjective to hA ESTIN, is a generalizing term for the
nebulous character of aspects of a lifestyle in this present world-age.
It's as if the sense of SKIA is "nebulosity"--you really wouldn't want to
pluralize that as "nebulosities," would you?
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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