[B-Greek] Acts 1:1
ph.maertens at sapo.pt
ph.maertens at sapo.pt
Mon Apr 25 21:33:47 EDT 2005
Dear Dr. Conrad
Thanks a lot for the reference. really helpful.
Philip Maertens
Citando "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>:
> On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:16 AM, ph.maertens at sapo.pt wrote:
>
> > Dear listmembers,
> >
> > After a few years, I'm struggeling again through my (french) copy of
> > Wenham. At
> > the same time, I try to follow the advice of reading large parts in
> > Greek on
> > the one hand and to analyse smaller portions of the text. The other
> > day, I
> > started the book of Acts and already in the first line, I stumbled on
> > something
> > that is hard for me to understand.
> >
> > TON MEN PRWTON LOGON EPOIHSAMHN ktl
> >
> > Maybe under the influence of the translations I'm used to read, I
> > would have
> > expected the form EPOIHSA - actif aorist. Or the text displays a
> > middle aorist.
> > Why is that?
> > Could someone please enlighten me ?
>
> If you haven't access to BDAG you might check LSJ--perseus has it
> online and you'll find the entry for
> POIEW at
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?
> doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2384235
>
> If you'll check sense II subcategroy 5, you see "freq. in Med. with
> Nouns periphr. for the Verb derived from the Noun"--and within this
> it's indicated that LOGON POIEISQAI can be a periphrasis of LEGEIN.
> There really is a middle sense here, as in English, "I've made my
> speech" or "I've had my say about this ..."
>
> It's worth noting, perhaps, that there are 568 instances of POIEW in
> the GNT, but only 22 instances of this verb in the middle-passive; if
> you check them out you can see that many of them are clearly instances
> of periphrasis of the verb, e.g. John 14:23 MONHN PAR' AUTWi POIHSOMEQA
> = MENOUMEN (fut.); 2 Peter 1:15 MNHMHN POIEISQAI = MNMONEUEIN;
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at ioa.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>
>
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