[B-Greek] Gal 2:13

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon May 23 18:38:27 EDT 2005


KAI SUNUPEKRIQHSAN AUTWi [KAI] hOI LOIPOI IOUDAIOI,
hWSTE KAI BARNABAS SUNAPHCQH AUTWN THi hUPOKRISEI.

I have two, separate questions here. The first is
rather insignificant. I wonder if the first century
Greeks pronounced SUNUPEKRIQHSAN as SUNhUPEKRIQHSAN?
Phonetically, it seems equally effortless to include
the rough breathing. Seems odd that in the same verse
you would pronounce forms of this word differently.

Second question deals with agency. I ask myself every
time now when I see a -QH form if it could be Middle
or Passive. I understand that if an agent is
mentioned, it will be Passive. Is that right? Does an
"agent" have to be a person? Or, could THi hUPOKRISEI
be the agent that caused Barnabas to follow suit? What
also leads me to see a Middle here even though there
might be an agent is in the previous verse, we are
told that Peter AFWRIZEN hEAUTON. There is no passive
sense here.


Which structure gives more emphasis to the semantics
of a Middle: 1) Active verb with reflexive pronoun, or
2) Middle voice verb? (My guess would be an Active
with reflexive pronoun since there really can't be
ambiguity in that construct.)

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


		
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