[B-Greek] KAI AUTOUS--Mark 1:19
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 16 22:56:44 EST 2004
At 03:22 PM 2/16/04 -0800, Mark Lama wrote:
>Hello, fellow B-Greekers!
>
>Today I noticed what seems like a curious construction in Mark 1:19:
>
>KAI PROBAS OLIGON EIDEN IAKWBON TON TOU ZEBEDAIOU KAI IWANNHN TON ADELFON
>AUTOU, KAI AUTOUS EN TWi PLOIWi KATARTIZONTAS TA DIKTUA.
...
>Or
>am I all wrong, and this sentence is still somehow grammatical, or the
>solecism, if there be one, should be accounted for in another way?
Blass-Debrunner-Funk § 442(9), p. 229, claim that the KAI in KAI AUTOUS
here is epexegetical ("that is to say") and cites LXX 1 Km 16:18 for
comparison. They cite other examples with demonstrative pronouns. That
is to say, the phrase headed by AUTOUS functions as a direct object of
EIDEN and explains something about James of Zebedee and John his brother.
Stephen Carlson
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