[B-Greek] local dative Col 1:16
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Dec 27 19:12:58 EST 2005
EN does normally take a locative dative.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, at 06:41PM, <kgraham0938 at comcast.net> wrote:
>Hey I just came across something interesting in BDAG, the argue that
>
>hOTI EV AUTWi EKTISQH TA PANTA EN TOIS OURANOIS should be considered a local dative since EN AUTWi would otherwise be identical with DI AUTOS.
Might I ask for consistent use of "N" for Nu? We seem frequently to get a hodge-podge of V and N; here we have a preponderance of N but one V.
>I always took it as a instrumental dative.
Do you understand the sense to be "by (means of) him?" But you don't normally get an instrumental dative to express agent. That is, the instrumental dative normally is used of an impersonal causal factor.
I think I would understand EN AUTWi in much the same way as we understand the phrase EN CRISTWi: it indicates the focal point.
Carl W. Conrad
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