[B-Greek] EXESTAKENAI in Acts 8:11: transitive or intransitive?

Randy Leedy Rleedy at bju.edu
Wed Mar 9 16:57:27 EST 2005


But nobody was equating grammar between a medieval and a koine text.
Stephen was quoting from a medieval source a comment that clearly showed
that that author understood the Koine text in a transitive sense. The
medieval text cited is a comment on Acts 8:11, not a grammatically
parallel construction.

Randy Leedy

>>> Jim West <jwest at highland.net> 03/09/05 4:43 PM >>>


Randy Leedy wrote:

>And I'm not
>sure why a Medieval Greek's sense that the verb can be transitive
should
>be thrown out as irrelevant just because of this time period. Do
>Medievals typically manifest incompentence on the grammatical
mechanics
>of Koine?
>
The point is that medieval greek texts are not Koine greek texts.  To 
equate the grammar of the two is to equate modern American English 
grammar with Shakesperean grammar.

Jim

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