[B-Greek] ELEON in James 2:13b
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 11 07:03:05 EDT 2004
At 11:23 AM +0100 8/11/04, Andrew Chapman wrote:
>In the Majority Text (Hodges and Farstad 2nd ed), the second part of James
>2:13 reads KATAKAUCATAI ELEON KRISEWS. (Nestle-Aland has ELEOS: mercy
>triumphs over judgement.) ELEON appears to be the accusative of the
>masculine form of ELEOS. Can anyone explain to me why it is in the
>accusative rather than the nominative?
>
This is indeed strange--and the more so in that the accusative of the
neuter form of the noun is employed in the first half of the verse.
According to BDAG, TO ELEOS is the standard classical form from Homer
forwards, while hO ELEOS became the standard form in later Greek; but there
is no place for an accusative in the second half of this verse. I note that
TR has the nominative ELEOS in the second half.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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