[B-Greek] 1 Tim 5:20

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jun 26 17:42:57 EDT 2005


On Jun 26, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Mike Sangrey wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 14:39 -0400, George F Somsel wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:19:57 -0400 Mike Sangrey
>> <MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 18:20 -0400, George F Somsel wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is, however, another consideration which is raised by Smyth,
>>>>
>>> if I
>>>
>>>> understand him correctly.  In  1643 he states, "The
>>>>
>>> preposition-adverb
>>>
>>>> may do duty for the verb in parallel clauses."  It could thus be
>>>>
>>> that
>>>
>>>> BOTH a public sin AND a public rebuke are envisioned.  By being
>>>>
>>> placed
>>>
>>>> between the two verbs, it would thus lend itself to such an
>>>> understanding.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since you wondered whether you've understood Smyth correctly, let me
>>> suggest you haven't.  I'm pretty sure (though perhaps *I*
>>> misunderstand!) the point is that a preposition-adverb can stand IN
>>> THE
>>> PLACE OF a repetition of the verb.  The example he gives is ANDRES
>>> ANESTAN, AN MEN AP' ATREIDHS ... where the AN sort of "picks up" the
>>> sense of "rose up" in the verb ANESTAN.  I think this works simply
>>> because the verb is a compound of the preposition that is used in
>>> the
>>> parallel clauses.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You could be correct though there is a consideration which makes me
>> wonder.  AN is not a preposition but a modal particle.  THAT is what
>> makes his example unclear.
>>
>
> It's also the shortened form of ANA.  See Liddel & Scott.

And unquestionably that's what it is in this passage, which is Iliad  
23.886 and AN functions much as does a "separable prefix" in German,  
really more an adverb consistently used with the verb than a prefix  
in the proper sense of later usage.

Carl W. Conrad
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