[B-Greek] Adjectival and Adverbial Prepositional Phrases
Steven Lo Vullo
themelios at charter.net
Mon May 16 00:22:44 EDT 2005
On May 15, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
> Of course, it is possible that what Paul is saying is that he along
> with the brothers are awaiting Timothy. But this seems ambiguous. It
> seems as though he may be saying that he is awaiting the arrival of
> Timothy and some others. If this is so, the prepositional phrase must
> construe with the pronoun. My question is this: Even if Paul did not
> mean the latter in this particular case, how would he have expressed
> this idea otherwise in a context in which he DID mean this?
Upon just a little reflection it occurred to me that the answer to my
question is pretty simple. KAI would suffice to join AUTON to any
further object or objects, i.e., EKDECOMAI AUTON KAI TOUS AUTOUS. This
would seem to be the most straightforward way of expressing this idea.
So, in light of this, is it more natural to construe META TWN ADELFWN
with EKDECOMAI, so that the idea is that Paul and the brothers are
awaiting Timothy?
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
MAR student
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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