[B-Greek] Heb. 10:25 Ptc use of EGKATALEIPONTES & PARAKALOUNTES

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 18 17:37:14 EDT 2004


At 4:35 PM -0400 5/18/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>Hebrews 10:24-25 reads, "KAI KATANOWMEN ALLHLOUS EIS PAROXUSMON AGAPHS KAI
>KALWN ERGWN MH EGKATALEIPONTES THN EPISUNAGWGHN hEAUTWN KAQWS EQOS TISIN
>ALLA PARAKALOUNTES KAI TOSOUTWi MALLON hOSWi BLEPETE EGGIZOUSAN THN
>hHMERAN."
>
>I would be interested in hearing how others would identify the participial
>uses of  EGKATALEIPONTES & PARAKALOUNTES.
>
>Right now I'm halting between several options:
>1. Take them as the means of the implied verbal event in PAROXUSMON, i.e.,
>we provoke to love & good works, by not forsaking ... and exhorting ...
>2. Take them as expressing a subordinate, but contemporaneous action with
>the three preceding hortatory subjunctives.
>3. Take them as expressing a subordinate, but contemporaneous action with
>only the preceding KATANOWMEN.

I would think yet another alternative might be to take those participles as
rhetorical variations of additional hortatory subjunctives, i.e. MH
EGKATALEIPONTES ... ALLA PARAKALOUNTES ... = KAI MH EGKATALEIPWMEN ... ALLA
PARAKALWMEN ...

I think it might be wise to be careful not to confuse a translation
strategy for a construction like this with an understanding of how the
structure works in the Greek text. Of your other alternatives #1 appeals
most to me.
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Carl W. Conrad
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