[B-Greek] Romans 11.26: ASEBEIAS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun May 23 10:50:04 EDT 2004
At 7:34 PM -0400 5/22/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>Thanks, Carl.
>
>Is hENEKA the only preposition you know of that does this?
>
>As you mentioned, BDAG suggests TINOS hENEKA is an idiom for 'why?'
Actually, it's simply glossed as "why"--it's not indicated as an idiom as
such. I know of no other "postpositions" in the GNT; I mentioned this one
only to inject a 'diachronic; note into what seemed to me too absolute a
'synchronic' assertion. It's sometimes argued that the elements in such
expressions as KAQ' hOLOU and KATA MEROS in the sense of "generally" and
"partially" respectively are not thought of as distinct elements; I know
that ultimately such items do fuse together, but I submit that people who
use "on the whole" for "generally" in English are (generally) well enough
aware of what each word in the phrase "on-the-whole' means. I don't think
this is really worth arguing about, since obviously reasonable arguments
can be advanced on both sides of the issue.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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