[B-Greek] Re: Rom 8:17

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 8 10:18:48 EDT 2005


Mitch:

Malcolm wrote:

> A native speaker - a child for example - is
> naturally fluent in their own native language.  But
> if you were to ask them what use of the genitive do
> you intend, they would look at you oddly and say
> huh?

Let me clarify this. Native first century Greek
speakers would be able to rapidly list far more
Genitive "uses" than even Wallace formalizes. Same is
true for English speakers compared to those studying
English. This is a basic characteristic of inherent
language vs learned language. In English, we probably
have hundreds of meanings/uses for "of," but in most
contexts, a native speaker intuites which sense is
meant, and for all practical purposes, he intuites it
in real-time. What IS the case is that ALL of these
"hundreds of meanings/uses for 'of'" have not been
catalogued in offical grammar books. This would be
true.

Eddie 




		
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