[B-Greek] Heb 7,24
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 15:41:46 EDT 2004
Just so I understand this cut and paste from Wallace,
is the conclusion that this canNOT be an attributive
adjective because the position of Adj-Art-Noun is not
an attributive position? (I guess then it is a
predicate position. Right?)
Mitch Larramore
--- "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros at iol.ie> wrote:
> At 18:19 05/05/2004, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>
> >I take it that someone here understands an
> attributive
> >meaning to violate Greek grammar. How so?
>
> From Daniel B. Wallace. (1999; 2002). Greek Grammar
> Beyond the Basics
>
> >>>>>The adjective may be either attributive or
> predicate in relation to
> the noun. That is, it may either modify the noun or
> assert something about
> it. Except for the use of pronominal adjectives with
> nouns , when the
> article is present, it is usually easy to discern
> the relationship.
>
>
> >> The first attributive position is
> article-adjective-noun . In this
> construction the adjective receives greater emphasis
> than the substantive.
> This usage is quite common.
>
> >>The second attributive position is
> article-noun-article-adjective . This
> difference in the placement of the adjective is not
> one of relation, but of
> position and emphasis. In the second attributive
> position "both substantive
> and adjective receive emphasis and the adjective is
> added as a sort of
> climax in apposition with a separate article.
>
> >> The third attributive position is
> noun-article-adjective Here the
> substantive is [often] indefinite and general, while
> the attribute
> [adjective] makes a particular application.
>
>
>
> Maurice A. O'Sullivan
> [Bray, Ireland]
>
> "Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text
> wholly to yourself."
> - Johann Albrecht Bengel
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