[B-Greek] 2 Thes 2,4

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat May 8 06:54:14 EDT 2004


At 7:42 PM -0700 5/7/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>hO ANTIKEIMENOS KAI hUPERAIROMENOS EPI PANTA LEGOMENON
>QEON H SEBASMA, hWSTE AUTON EIS TON NAON TOU QEOU
>KAQISAI APODEIKNUNTA hEAUTON hOTI ESTIN QEOS
>
>
>I read a diagram of this sentence from a site by Dr.
>Decker and if I understand him right, he has
>APODEIKNUNTA directly modifying NAON. Is there another
>way of syntactically arranging APODEIKNUNTA? Seems to
>me it goes with AUTON.

I must admit that I don't understand how it could construe with NAON; it
agrees with AUTON.


>Could APODEIKNUNTA be attendent circumstance
>participle with AUTON-KAQISAI (he takes a seat in the
>temple of God...(and) displays himself as God)?

Yes, and there's an element of consequence or result here, so that you can
translate the construction into English as:

	" ... so that he takes his seat in the temple of God and (thereby)
shows
		that he is God ..."
or	" ... so that he takes his seat in the temple of god, thereby showing
		that he is God ..."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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