[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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