[B-Greek] demonstrative pronouns

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Sun Dec 11 12:28:43 EST 2005


Yancy Smith <Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu>  wrote

  .....Still, here you
might revise the idea of "near" and "far." The stand point of the
evangelist, or the implied author, is that of omniscient narrator. So
he is equally present with all his characters. In this case
"hUPERHTAI" is more remote grammatically and so the rule of "near/
far" can be seen to apply.
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"hUPERHTAI" is more remote grammatically so the "near/far" rule would make 
hUPERHTAI the referent of  EKEINOI.  Yet it is AUTOIS that has to refer to 
hUPERHTAI.

Bert de Haan





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