[B-Greek] John 1:47 ALHQWS

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 14 08:26:52 EDT 2005


Seems strange to me for John to have used ALHQWS this
way in light of his frequent use of ALHQHS. If ALHQWS
were to be understood adjectivally, it would be rare,
and what grammatical justification is there?

BTW, anyone know why Wallace's GGBB doesn't deal with
Adverbs?

Eddie Mishoe

--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:47 AM, D Jongkind wrote:
> 
> > John 1:47
> > IDE ALHQWS ISRAHLITHS EN W DOLOS OUK ESTIN
> >
> > To what extent can adverbs as ALHQWS take on
> adjectival qualities?  
> > Some translations render this as 'a true
> Israelite' but it seems to  
> > me rather uncommon to take an adverb in the sense
> of an adjective.  
> > I checked BDF343 but I see some difference with
> the case in hand:  
> > here the adverb is derived from an adjective.
> > Could somebody shed some light?.
> 
> An interesting question, Dirk. After a bit of
> reflection, I rather  
> think ALHQWS is adverbial and construes with an
> implicit verb: ESTIN  
> would be a pretty good candidate, I think,
> especially since we have  
> the rare active imperative IDE instead of IDOU,
> which is more common:  
> "Take note! Here's an israelite in the authentic
> sense (rightly so- 
> called) ..." I do think that a verb must be implicit
> here and  
> something like a hOUTOS also. On the other hand, I
> suppose it could  
> be argued that ISRAHLITHS is generic and functioning
> more like a  
> predicate adjective: "Here's an Israelite, one
> rightly so-called."
> 
> That, as I say, is after a bit of reflection; I'd
> like to hear other  
> views on this question.
> 
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
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