[B-Greek] 2 Cor 2:1

Paul Toseland toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jun 13 08:54:09 EDT 2004


George,

>I don't know what "in sorrow again" would mean.  It would need to have at
>least a copulative verb.  How do you "in re-sorrow"?  You can, however
>"BE in sorrow again" in which case "again" modifies the copula.  
>

I meant that "in-sorrow-again" might function semantically as a modifier 
of ELQEIN - hypothetically,
Paul had come in sorrow before, and now he has decided not to 'come in 
sorrow again'.

>I think
>you need to decide whether ELQEIN implies "return" all by itself without
>the addition of PALIN (which it seems to do in some cases).  If it does,
>then you would have "return again in sorrow" which might be considered to
>imply that a previous visit was also sorrowful.
>  
>
I can see that ELQEIN could be translated 'return' when the coming in 
question would be a return.

Best regards
Paul Toseland



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