[B-Greek] intensive AUTOS

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Wed Sep 29 00:52:40 EDT 2004


On Sep 18, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:

> Smyth notes that AUTOS may be used intensively "in any case, when in 
> the
> predicate position with a substantive, or in agreement with a pronoun."
> (1206b). In the NT however, intensive AUTOS is generally nominative. 
> Does
> anyone know if there is any New Testament passage where AUTOS in an 
> oblique
> case is best understood as intensive?

Jeff, probably one of the better known examples in the accusative is 
Matt 17.8:

OUDENA EIDON EI MH AUTON IHSOUN MONON
They saw no one except Jesus himself only

For other examples in the accusative, see John 14.11; 2 Thess 1.4; Heb 
9.19, 23, 24; 10.1.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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