[B-Greek] Acts 15:11

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jun 7 08:08:22 EDT 2005


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:30:04 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
writes:
> 
> This wasn't part of the question, but I assume it's recognized that  
> 
> the subject of the infinitive
> SWQHNAI is a suppressed nominative because the subject is the same 
> as  
> that of PISTEUOMEN:
> "we believe that we have been saved ..."
> 
> KAQ' hON TROPON is a common usage whereby the antecedent is  
> "squeezed" into -- or
> incorporated into -- the relative pronominal expression:
> KAQ' hON TROPON = KATA TON TROPON KAQ' hON ...
> 
> Finally, the verb in ellipsis after KAKEINOI must be the indicative  
> 
> ESWQHSAN, not the infinitive;
> it's not "we believe that we have been saved in the way in which 
> they  
> believe they have been
> saved" but rather "we believe that we have been saved in the way in  
> 
> which they (have been
> saved)."
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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Actually, I was reading  SWQHNAI as indicating purpose or result so that
it would be "We believe (with the result that / so that) we are saved as
they believed (with the result that / so that) they were saved."

george
gfsomsel
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