[B-Greek] The antecedent following the relative pronoun?

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jun 1 22:58:20 EDT 2004


Moon,

hHN D'AN is the relative here meaning "whatever."

"Whatever town or village you enter, inquire . . ." 

Your alternate 

POLIN H KWMHN EIS hGN [ sic !  hHN] D'AN EISELQHTE

would likely be possible (though I haven't checked for parallels), but I
should think it would be a bit awkward since it involves a resumption and
would be equivalent in English to

"Town or village into whatever you enter, inquire . . ."

It is unnecessary to translate "Into whatever . . . you enter " since it
seems to be a constituent part of the usage of EISERXOMAI that the object
which is entered is indicated by EIS while the person to whom one enters
is indicated by PROS.  English style requires only one concept of entry
which is satisfied by "enter."

gfsomsel
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:27:18 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> Forwarded for: moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Reply-To: moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
> Subject: The antecedent following the relative pronoun?
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:47:52 +0900
> 
> Dear interpreters,
> 
> In Matt 10:11, we have:
> 
> EIS hHN D' AN POLIN H KWMHN EISELQHTE, EXETASATE..
> into whatsoever city or town you go,...
> 
> Is it the same as
> 
> POLIN H KWMHN EIS hGN D' AN EISELQHTE,...?
> 
> If so, what would be the reason that the antecedent
> POLIN hHN KWMHN is moved after the relative pronoun?
> 
> Or, in this construction, hH is no longer a relative pronoun
> but is a sort of adjective meaning "whatsoever"?
> 
> Moon Ryul Jung
> Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
> 
> 
> Moon R. Jung
> Associate Professor
> Dept of Media Technology
> Graduate School of Media Comm
> Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
> 
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