[B-Greek] Romans 16:12 'and of myself'
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Aug 24 13:09:20 EDT 2004
At 5:22 PM +0100 8/24/04, D Jongkind wrote:
>Romans 16:2
>KAI GAR AUTH PROSTATIS POLLWN EGENQH KAI EMOU AUTOU
>
>As the text stands, Paul puts a heavy emphasis on the fact that Phoebe
>was a PROSTATIS of his. It may be just me, but EMOU AUTOU does not look
>as a standard phrase.
Here AUTOU is intensive "of many and also of my self."
>My question, however, is it possible to make sense of these two variant
>readings:
>KAI GAR AUTH PROSTATIS POLLWN EGENQH KAI EMOU KAI AUTOU
While this is theoretically possible, "For she has also been a protectress
of several and of me and of him"--it doesn't really make idiomatic sense
inasmuch as there's no clear antecedent for AUTOUl
>KAI GAR AUTH PROSTATIS POLLWN EGENQH KAI EMOU TE AUTOU
Here I think that the TE is superfluous; it looks like an effort to
strengthen KAI EMOU AUTOU, but it actually creates an odd configuration,
inasmuch as TE attaches to the preceding word rather than links the two
pronouns. I'd say that this formulation makes no sense at all.
>Is there an idiomatic usage 'of me and his' meaning something like
>'everyone'?
Not that I know of (but perhaps someone else may know of it).
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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