[B-Greek] Re: Matt 15:37: a strange structure?

moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
Mon Jun 28 19:23:25 EDT 2004


[MOON]:
> >
> >I have looked at the sentence of Matt 15:37b, and am puzzled about it.
> >
> >TO PERISSEUON TWN KLASMATWN HRAN hHPTA SPURIDAS PLHREIS.
> >the left-over  of  pieces   took  seven  baskets  full
> >
> >PLHREIS is  accusative plural, and seems to describe TO PERISSEUON, which is
> >also accusative, though the latter is singular. hHPTA SPURIDAS seems to
> >construe with PLHREIS, and complement it. So, I would think that hHPTA
> >SPURIDAS
> >is "accusative of respect", and would be translated as "in seven baskets".
> 

[CARL]:

> No, I think that we have an instance of a plural concrete expression (hEPTA
> SPURIDAS PLHREIS) functioning in apposition to a singular abstract
> expression (TO PERISSEUON TWN KLASMATWN) functioning as direct object of
> the verb HRAN.
>

[Moon]: I had a reason why I hesitated to take hEPTA SPURIDAS PLHREIS as an apposition
to TO PERISSEUON TWN KLASMATWN. It does not have the articile in the front. So,
I thought it is a predicate expression rather than a noun phrase referring to a thing.

In an English sentence, "We received our son dead", "dead" is not an apposition to "our son", but a predicate expression describing "our son". Isn't the same thing going on
in Matt 15:37?

Moon Jung

  

Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Dept of Media Technology
Graduate School of Media Comm
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea





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