[B-Greek] Rev 9:15 - use of definite article

Roe d.roe at t-online.de
Sun Jun 13 06:16:54 EDT 2004


Thanks George and Bill,

It is my understanding that when a substantive has an article it
*cannot* be (translated as) indefinite. But is there *any* exception to
the rule that I'm overlooking? Some grammatical argument for an
indefinite translation of EIS THN hWRAN KAI hHMERAN KAI MHNA KAI
ENIAUTON as "an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year"?

Thanks again,
David

D.W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany


WFWarren at aol.com schrieb:
> 
> In a message dated 6/12/04 10:38:35 AM, gfsomsel at juno.com writes:
> 
> > Smyth notes that in Homer the article tends to be used as a
> > demonstrative( _Greek Grammar_ , §§1000-1104) in §§1119-1121 he deals
> > with the subject of "The Particular Article" in which he states much the
> > same thing as Aune in his WBC 52a commentary on Revelation.
> > "The definite article is always used with a word group that consists of
> > article + substantive. By using the article, the author assumes (rightly
> > or wrongly) that the reader knows the persons or things indicated by the
> > substantive.
> >
> To back up this note, the demonstrative use is what the Net Bible notes for
> this article in Rev. 9:15.   One textual variant also puts an article with
> hHMERAN, but no article is attached to the next two nouns.
> 
> paz,
> 
> Bill Warren
> Director of the Center for New Testament Textual Studies
> Landrum P. Leavell, II, Professor of New Testament and Greek
> New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary



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