[B-Greek] SOI in Mark 2:18

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 9 20:03:18 EST 2004


At 6:55 PM -0500 2/9/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>
>Before this becomes much ado about nothing, if it isn't already. On what
>basis can it be asserted that the personal pronoun cannot function
>adnominally, in view of the examples I've already given?

Rom 9:7 OUD' hOTI EISIN SPERMA ABRAAM PANTES TEKNA, ALL' EN ISAAK
KLHQHSETAI SOI SPERMA.

This SOI is not a dative of possession; it's a dative of reference, could
be understood as a "sentence dative," some might even say its dative of
agent with KLHQHSETAI, but I'd stick with dative of reference, even if it's
Englished as "your offspring wil be called ..." (I'd understand it
literally as, "So far as you are concerned offspring will be called through
Isaac."

Prov 5;10 hINA MH PLHSQWSIN ALLTRIOI SHS ISCUOS hOI DE SOI PONOI EIS OIKOUS
ALLOTRIWN EISELQWSIN

Prov. 23:26 DOS MOI hUIE SHN KARDIAN, hOI DE SOI OFQALMOI EMAS hODOUS
THREITWSAN.

Considering the other instances of the pronominal adjective here (SHS with
ISCUOS IN Prov 5:10, SHN with KARDIAN, EMAS with hODOUS in Prov 23:26), it
would seem strange to me to deem SOI in hOI SOI PONOI in Prov 5:10 and SOI
in hOI SOI OFQALMOI as dative of SU.


Here's 25 instances of forms of the pronominal adj. SOS/SH/SON in the GNT;
they're consistent with the usage in Mk 2;18 (cited among them, of course):
Matt. 7:3, 22; 13:27; 20:14; 24:3; 25:25; Mark 2:18; 5:19; Luke 5:33; 6:30;
15:31; 22:42; John 4:42; 17:10, 17; 18:35; Acts 5:4; 24:2, 4; 1Cor. 8:11;
14:16; Philem. 1:14
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Carl W. Conrad
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