[B-Greek] Acts 16,10
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 30 11:41:04 EST 2004
At 9:12 AM -0600 3/30/04, Martin Culy wrote:
>I would disagree with Dr. Conrad here. Yes, EUAGGELIZOMAI is a transitive
>verb in Greek; but its direct object will be the thing preached rather than
>the person(s) preached to. In Acts, see 5:42; 8:4; 8:35; 10:36; 11:20; etc.
>Acts 8:35 is a good example illustrating that the person preached to is
>normally in the dative case (as the indirect object). Just as in English the
>clause "I threw the ball to the boy" can be expressed as "I threw the boy
>the ball" (with the indirect object moving into the direct object position),
>so in Greek the person(s) preached to (indirect object) can "advance" into
>the direct object role (and thus bear accusative case). As noted in
>Culy/Parsons on Acts 8:25, this type of shifting of grammatical relation
>(subject, object, direct object) is what takes place in passive
>constructions as well, where the direct object (semantic patient) takes on
>the role of grammatical subject.
What BDAG seems to indicate is that the more frequent usage of
EUAGGELIZOMAI is indeed with accusative of the thing proclaimed and dative
of the person to whom it is proclaimed--but that we also find the double
accusative of thing preached and person to whom preached and a single
accusative of the person preached to.
The "rule" here seems to be a statement of usage that is relatively more
frequent, e.g.:
Lk 2:10 IDOU GAR EUAGGELIZOMAI hUMIN CARAN MEGALHN
Lk 3:18 POLLA MEN OU KAI hETERA PARAKALWN EUGGELIZETO TON LAON.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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