[B-Greek] Phil. 2.1a

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Mar 14 05:48:41 EST 2005


At 6:12 PM -0800 3/13/05, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>EI TIS OUN PARAKLHSIS EN CRISTWi...
>
>Can EI be understood as the Present Active Indicative
>of EIMI? Thus, this is not a conditional statement (If
>there if any...) but a statement of fact (there IS
>comfort in Christ...)

No. (a) if it were a form of EIMI, it would be accented EI= (smooth
breathing, circumflex over iota) and it would be second-singular: something
like "are you a comfort in Christ?"
(b) But it is NOT accented that way but rather EI/ (smooth breathing, acute
accent over the iota because the following TIS is an enclitic)
(c) We must understand an ESTIN (existential): "If any comfort in Christ
(exists) ..."
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Carl W. Conrad
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