[B-Greek] Jn. 8:40

Minton, Ron rminton at bible.edu
Tue Nov 23 12:23:21 EST 2004


I meant: But what is the grammatical term for the nom masc sing prn taking a
first person verb instead of a third person verb?
Ron Minton

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 "Minton, Ron" <rminton at bible.edu> writes:
> But what is the grammatical term for the nom masc sing prn taking a third 
> person verb instead of a first person verb?
> Ron Minton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gfsomsel at juno.com [mailto:gfsomsel at juno.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Jn. 8:40
> 
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:48:58 -0500 "Minton, Ron" 
> <rminton at bible.edu>
> writes:
> > What is the Greek construction called in John 8:40 when the 
> relative 
> > pronoun hos seems to be the subject of the verb I speak?  It would 
> seem
> that a third singular verb should be found, but we find a first 
> person.
> > Does anyone have additional examples of this?
> > 
> > Prof. Ron Minton
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> > ---
> 
> TEXT: 
> NUN DE ZHTEITE ME APOKTEINAI ANQRWPON hOS THN ALHQEIAN hUMIN 
> LELALHKA hHN
> HKOUSA PARA TOU QEOU . . .
> 
> It's a relative clause describing  ANQRWPON which in turn is in
> apposition to ME which is the object of the inf APOKTEINAI.
> george
> gfsomsel
_______________
 
Now I'm confused.  Why would you expect it to be anything other than a 3
s since ANQRWPON is that to which hOS . .   . LELALHKA refers?  

BTW:  Greek doesn't have a 3 M.s. finite verb.  I think you've been
reading Hebrew which does distinguish.

george
gfsomsel



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