[B-Greek] Adjectival and Adverbial Prepositional Phrases in Biblical Greek
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue May 17 22:17:36 EDT 2005
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 09:39PM, James Davis <jamesdavis at focusonthescriptures.com> wrote:
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>On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 01:26PM, James Davis <jamesdavis at focusonthescriptures.com> wrote:
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>>Now let me propose a sentence: KAI PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS META LEPRAS. And my next question is: Would META LEPRAS characterize PERIBLEYAMENOS or AUTOUS?
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>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?
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>Carl W. Conrad
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>Carl, thank you very much for your reply. Your comments are really very helpful.
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>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.
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>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?
I'm sorry, but I can only say once again: this doesn't make any sense at all. That text can NOT mean, as it seems you want to understand it , "looking about at them with leprosy" as if AUTOUS META LEPRAS might mean "them who were lepers"--it cannot possibly mean that. Moreover, as I noted before, "looking about at them with leprosy" makes syntactical sense of the phrase PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS META LEPRAS, but is an absurd combination.
It looks to me like this sentence has been co;mpounded from a section of Luke 17 and a text in Mark 3:5 PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS MET' ORGHS, which means "looking about at them angrily (with anger) -- but such a phrase as PERIBLEYAMENOS AUTOUS META LEPRAS makes no sense whatsoever.
Carl W. Conrad
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