[B-Greek] 1Cor11.10 acc. of comparison?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 22 11:32:44 EST 2005
>L.S. 1Cor 11.10 has long been a crux interpretum.
>DIA TOUS ANGELOUS. For myself I have come to
>a conclusion I would like to submit to scrutinizing
>by others. I came to regard this as a DIA with and
>accusative of comparison.
I'm not familiar with an "accusative of comparison"
for Greek, and I'm wondering where this term comes
from, because it may be necessary translate that term
into more conventional terminology.
At first blush, it might look like A.T. Robertson has
employed this term in his word picture on Heb 2:7
("Beside angels" like para with the accusative of
comparison in Hebrews 1:4, Hebrews 1:9."), but
I think all he means that this accusative with PARA
should be understood as comparison (one of the
senses of PARA with the accusative). I don't think
he means to imply the existence of an accusative
of comparison more generally, i.e., beyond PARA.
That being said, DIA + accusative here is probably
"on account of the angels" -- whatever that means.
Stephen Carlson
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