[B-Greek] PLHRHS
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 30 09:58:25 EDT 2004
John 1:14 KAI hO
> >> LOGOS SARX EGENETO KAI ESKHNWSEN EN hHMIN, KAI
> EQEASAMEQA THN DOXAN AUTOU,
> >> DOXAN hWS MONOGENOUS PARA PATROS, PLHRHS CARITOS
> KAI ALHQEIAS.
<snip>
Iver asked:
>Could PLHRHS in John 1:14 possibly be an accusative
(feminine), and
>therefore relate to DOXAN?
Dr. Conrad replied:
Hardly! Even if we should understand PLHRHS as a
2-termination
adjective
(PLHRHS mf/PLHRES n), it would have to be PLHRH in the
acc. sg. fem. As
noted above, the only way to understand it as
construing with DOXAN is
as
an INDECLINABALE adjective. And perhaps that's what it
is, as the
evidence
offered in BDAG seems to indicate, but I must say, it
surely seems
"passing
strange" to me--very idiomatic, perhaps like American
English
colloquial
idioms, "the whole nine yards" or "lock, stock, and
barrel."
I note:
What do we make then of Robertson:
Full (PLHRHS). Probably indeclinable accusative
adjective agreeing with DOXAN (or genitive with
MONOGENOUS) of which we have papyri examples
(Robertson, Grammar, p. 275).
Does this note not say that there ARE papyri examples
of this adjectival usage of PLHRHS modifying a noun
such as DOXAN (which I assume Robertson means that
there are papyri examples of PLHRHS modifying an
accusative noun)?
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Mitch Larramore
Spring Branch, Texas
Student/Memorial High School
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