[B-Greek] Adjectival and Adverbial Prepositional Phrases

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Mon May 16 00:35:42 EDT 2005


On May 15, 2005, at 11:22 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.

AUTOUS should of course be ADELFOUS. Sorry for the confusion.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
MAR student
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School




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