[B-Greek] Adjectival and Adverbial Prepositional Phrases in Biblical Greek

James Davis jamesdavis at focusonthescriptures.com
Tue May 17 21:39:58 EDT 2005


On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 01:26PM, James Davis <jamesdavis at focusonthescriptures.com> wrote: 
  
>Now let me propose a sentence: KAI PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS META LEPRAS. And my next question is: Would META LEPRAS characterize PERIBLEYAMENOS or AUTOUS? 

On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:11:03 -0400  "Carl W. Conrad"<cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
Quite frankly I can't make any sense of this: "after looking at them with leprosy?" META LEPRAS ought in this instance to characterize PERIBLEYAMENOS but I cannot imagine what "ogling with leprosy" could conceivably mean. Where did you get this text? 

Carl W. Conrad 

Carl, thank you very much for your reply.  Your comments are really very helpful.

Now let me propose the sentence as follows: KAI EISEPCOMENOU AUTOU EIS TINA KWMHN APHNTHSAN AUTW DEKA LEPROI ANDRES, OI ESTHSAN PORRWQEN; KAI PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS META LEPRAS, EIPEN AUTOIS, etc.  

My next question is: Would this be a case where META with the genitive is an adjectival phrase because it is in a context where that prepositional phrase can be said to characterize the pronoun AUTOUS, and since its use to characterize PERIBLEYAMENOS does not make any sense?

James Davis
jamesdavis at focusonthescriptures.com
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