[B-Greek] Acts 16:34 & sentence diagramming.

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Dec 13 08:00:41 EST 2004


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:43:56 -0600 Steven Lo Vullo
<themelios at charter.net> writes:
> On Dec 12, 2004, at 7:06 PM, Remington186 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > HGALLIASATO PANOIKEI PEPISTEUKWS TWi QEWi
> > I'm thinking that PANOIKEI PEPISTEUKWS TWi QEWi is an adverbal 
> clause, 
> > with a
> > "subject," household, a "verbal," having committed, and the direct 
> 
> > object,
> > God. That "He," the subject of the sentence, is a part of "the 
> > household" is,
> > unquestionable.
> >
> > As a verbal clause would it inevitably modify rejoiced -- or is 
> there
> > something in Greek that has it simply modifying HGALLIASATO, 
> including 
> > both 'he' and
> > 'rejoiced,' both subject and predicate?
> 
> Hi Remington:
> 
> Yes, the participial phrase PEPISTEUKWS TWi QEWi is adverbial, 
> subordinate to and modifying HGALLIASATO, probably semantically 
> indicating the cause of the rejoicing. And TWi QEWi does indeed 
> complement PEPISTEUKWS.
> 
> Participles, since they are not finite, do not have subjects. 
> PANOIKEI 
> is an adverb. The question here is whether PANOIKEI modifies the 
> main 
> verb HGALLIASATO or the participle PEPISTEUKWS. Translators and 
> commentators are divided on this. Some have concluded that it 
> modifies 
> both. The NET note says this:
> 
> "The phrase 'together with his entire household' is placed at the 
> end 
> of the English sentence so that it refers to both the rejoicing and 
> the 
> belief. A formal equivalence translation would have 'and he rejoiced 
> 
> greatly with his entire household that he had come to believe in 
> God,' 
> but the reference to the entire household being baptized in v. 33 
> presumes that all in the household believed."
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Now that seems like an entirely theologically motivated comment.  Your
Presbyterians, Reformed, Episcopalians, Lutheraans and Catholics might
take issue with that.

george
gfsomsel
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