[B-Greek] Phil. 1:13

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu May 13 06:52:07 EDT 2004


At 8:21 AM +0300 5/13/04, Iver Larsen wrote:
>>
>> At 5:31 PM -0700 5/12/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>> >hWSTE TOUS DESMOUS MOU FANEROUS EN CRISTWi GENESQAI EN
>> >hOLWi TWi PRAITWRIWi KAI TOIS LOIPOIS PASIN
>> >
>> >Can someone please help me identify how each phrase
>> >works here? What is the "subject" of GENESQAI? Seems
>> >like either TOUS DESMOUS or FANEROUS could be since
>> >they are both accusative.
>> >
>> >And, does GENESQAI function as a finite verb here? If
>> >so, why?
>>
>> TOUS DESMOUS MOU is the subject of GENESQAI and FANEROUS is a predicate
>> adjective with EN CRISTWi as a modifier of FANEROUS GENESQAI;
>
>One small comment.
>I would construe EN CRISTWi with TOUS DESMOUS MOU for semantic reasons (my
>chains in Christ). The "chains" is a metonym for the event of being kept in
>prison, and often the word is best translated as imprisonment or being
>(kept) in prison. CRISTWi is a metonym for the event of preaching the gospel
>of Christ.
>
>NET says: "I am in prison for the sake of Christ."
>
>The guards/soldiers and everyone else around are aware that he is in prison
>not as a criminal but for his preaching of the gospel of Christ.

But doesn't this suggest that EN CRISTWi is NOT simply "attributive" (like
MOU) to TOUS DESMOUS? that somehow EN CRISTWi belongs to the predicate
FANEROUS GENESQAI, perhaps as an implicit "predicative" phrase? That is to
say, there seems to be implicit in FANEROUS EN CRISTWi GENESQAI something
like hWS ONTAS or hWS GENOMENOUS: "so that to the whole praetorium and to
everyone else it has become clear that my imprisonment is/has come about
through Christ/because of Christ. It really seems to me that the
formulation here is a bit compressed.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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