[B-Greek] Re: Dative of Place
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jan 24 15:30:17 EST 2004
At 2:43 PM -0500 1/24/04, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>PANTES GAR PARATHSOMEQA TWi BHMATI TOU QEOU
>
>In a message dated 1/24/2004 2:37:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>vze2pn8x at verizon.net writes:
>Yes, I meant "at" or "before".
>So, you do consider this a dative of place, contra Zerwick's statement
>that the dative of place is absent from the NT ?
>_________
>
>Unless one were to understand TWi BHMATI as an event rather than a place and
>therefore understand it temporally (possible, I suppose, but I should think it
>would be expressed differently), how otherwise is one to understand it?
I wouldn't hesitate to construe TWi BHMATI with PARASTHSOMEQA in the sense,
"stand before." That usage and also usage with ENWPION + genitive is
indicated in BDAG.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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