[B-Greek] Jn. 8:40
gfsomsel at juno.com
gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Nov 23 12:46:51 EST 2004
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:23:21 -0500 "Minton, Ron" <rminton at bible.edu>
writes:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gfsomsel at juno.com [mailto:gfsomsel at juno.com]
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Jn. 8:40
>
> 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
> > To: rminton at bible.edu
> > Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > 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
______________
OK. I think I understand now. I believe that would be called
"anacoluthon" (basically meaning "it does not follow").
george
gfsomsel
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