[B-Greek] 2 Cor 2:1
Paul Toseland
toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Jun 12 17:28:33 EDT 2004
George,
Thanks for this response.
>"Another
>painful visit" does not take PALIN with EN LUPHi but with ELQEIN. Note
>that this is an articular infinitive (TO . . . ELQEIN). PALIN thus fits
>within this sequence TO MH PALIN . . . ELQEIN. It is difficult for me to
>conceive of PALIN as being taken with EN LUPHi. What would this mean ?
>
>
On exegetical grounds I think PALIN must modify ELQEIN. But if it did
modify EN LUPHi, as
some scholars certanly argue, I guess it would mean 'in sorrow again';
so, 'not to come to you
in-sorrow-again', which could then be translated, 'not to make another
painful visit'.
>A repeated sorrow ? I would take both PALIN and EN LUPHi and PROS hUMAS
>as being adverbial in nature and all referencing TO ELQEIN.
>
That is how I would like to construct it.
>Thus it is
>"another visit" and "a painful visit" and "a visit to you."
>
>
Yes, I see that. But would this necessarily imply that the first visit
was painful?
That would mean that PALIN modifies EN LUPHi as well as ELQEIN, wouldn't
it?
Paul Toseland
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