[B-Greek] Uses of the pronoun AUTOS, Acts 2:22, 36; Rom. 9:3

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Wed Apr 21 17:22:49 EDT 2004


Dear John,

>How does AUTOS function in these three verses? I could not find much 
>about these in Wallace.
>
>Acts 2:22 (miracles, wonders, and signs) hOIS EPOIHSEN DI' AUTON hO 
>QEOS EN MESWi hUMWN KAQWS AUTOI OIDATE.

AUTOI intensifies the subject: "just as you yourselves know."

>Acts 2:36 ASFALWS OUN GINWSKETW PAS OIKOS ISRAHL hOTI KAI KURION 
>AUTON KAI CRISTON EPOIHSEN hO QEOS, TOUTON TON IHSOUN hON hUMEIS 
>ESTAURWSATE.

AUTON is part of a double accusative: "God made Him Lord and Christ."

>Romans 9:3 HUCOMHN GAR ANAQEMA EINAI AUTOS EGW APO TOU CRISTOU hUPER 
>TWN ADELFWN MOU...

Here it is intensive again: "For I could wish that I myself were accursed."

>It doesn't *seem to me* that the KURION AUTON in Acts 2:36 fits 
>either of these uses:
>AUTOS DAUID (David himself) or hO AUTOS KURIOS (the same Lord). Also 
>in this same verse I am hesitant to think that AUTON is the object 
>of EPOIHSEN. Is AUTOS in these verses a type of intensive pronoun?

Yes, it is the object of EPOIHSEN.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard




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