[B-Greek] Rev. 3:12 Pendent Nominative

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 28 12:50:10 EST 2005


On Dec 27, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> I think it is probable that Semitic thinking underlies the  
> construction of the Greek in these passages.


Perhaps what is semitic here is not the use of the nominative hO  
NIKWN but the pronoun that follows the finite verb: POIHSW AUTON. The  
construction in Rev. 2:7, 2:17 is no less semitic than Rev. 2:26, 3:12.


Rev. 2:7 TWi NIKWNTI DWSW AUTWi FAGEIN EK TOU XULOU THS ZWHS, hO  
ESTIN EN TWi PARADEISWi TOU QEOU.

Rev. 2:17 TWi NIKWNTI DWSW AUTWi TOU MANNA TOU KEKRUMMENOU KAI DWSW  
AUTWi YHFON LEUKHN,

Rev. 2:26 KAI hO NIKWN KAI hO THRWN ACRI TELOUS TA ERGA MOU, DWSW  
AUTWi EXOUSIAN EPI TWN EQNWN

Rev. 3:12 hO NIKWN POIHSW AUTON STULON EN TWi NAWi TOU QEOU MOU

Gesenis-Kautzsch-Cowley #143 cites an example from Eccl. 2:14 which  
the LXX renders as a genitive:

ECCL. 2:14 TOU SOFOU hOI OFQALMOI AUTOU EN KEFALHi AUTOU

Elizabeth Kline







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