[B-Greek] Help!
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Tue May 24 03:24:19 EDT 2005
I believe you meant Matt 16:13 instead of 12:13. Anyway, I believe this might be a predicate accusative. Where you basically have two accusatives, one of them becomes the subject of the infinitive and the other adds to or makes an assertion about the first. So in our verse TINA LEGOUSIN hOI ANQPWPOI EINAI TON hUION TOU ANQPWPOU;
TINA(accusative) is the subject of EINAI(infinitive), TON hUION(2nd accusative) adds to this expression.and the infinitive acts like an equative verb.
So you end up getting "Who do men say that the Son of man is?"
I believe that is how they got that translation.
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Kelton Graham
KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
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> In the workbook I am using to study Greek we are giving partial verses from
> the new testament and other places to translate.
>
> I was trying to translate TINA LEGOUSIN OI ANQRWPOI EINAI TON UION TOU
> ANQRWPOU? I was/am having problem with the infinitive EINAI. As far as I know
> it
> means 'to be.' I was unable to make a reasonable statement in translation in
> terms of English grammar without translating EINAI as I would if it read ESTIN.
>
> The sentence comes from the last part of Matt: 12:13. I went there in the
> NASB translation of the text and what they did was translate EINAI as ESTIN
> using the English is (ESTIN). Why does the present active infinitive translate
> as
> the third person singular present? Is there something I have missed?
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