[B-Greek] 2 Cor 2:1
Paul Toseland
toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jun 13 09:26:29 EDT 2004
Steven,
>> In addition, Ferdinand Baur has argued that if Paul meant to say, as I
>> think he did actually intend, 'not to return to you in sorrow', without
>> implying a prior sorrowful visit, he should properly have written
>>
>> TO MH PALIN ELQWN EN LUPHi PROS hUMAS ELQEIN.
>
>
> I find these types of arguments to be inherently weak, since they beg
> the question.
I guess Baur thought that, as it stands, PALIN EN LUPHi could be read as a
composite adverbial concept, 'again in sorrow' - implying a prior
occasion of
sorrow. The addition of ELQWN would rule that out. What puzzles me is
his implication that grammar would really require this, if there had
been a prior
sorrowful visit (and Baur maintained that there had not been such a
visit). Here
is what he says (English translation of 1876):
May we not suppose that the Apostle should properly have written
ELQWN after PALIN, but omitted it, including it in the following
ELQEIN?
Best regards
Paul Toseland
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