[B-Greek] Acts 8,20B
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 23 12:44:33 EST 2004
At 8:06 AM -0800 3/23/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>hOTI THN DWREAN TOU QEOU ENOMISAS DIA CRHMATWN KTASQAI
>
>"because you thought you could obtain God's gift with
>money?"
>
>Concerning KTASQAI, how does "to obtain" (infinitive)
>become "you could obtain"? It seems similar to an
>attendent circumstance participle that "converts" to a
>finite verb translation.
This is fairly standard indirect statement formulation where the subject of
the infinitive is identical with the subject of the introductory verb; if
you like, you may say that there's an implicit and unexpressed SU as
subject of KTASQAI. If the subject of the infinitive were a person other
than the subject of the introductory verb, that subject would be expressed
in the accusative case.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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