[B-Greek] Help!
Richard Ghilardi
qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Tue May 24 08:24:51 EDT 2005
Hello Folks,
On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:24:19 +0000 kgraham0938 at comcast.net writes:
> 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.
>
> --
> Kelton Graham
> KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
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Unfortunately, Kelton, TINA is not the subject of EINAI. It is the
predicate. TON hUION is the subject. And this is not a convertible
statement where subject and predicate are interchangeable: "The Son of
Man is Jeremiah" is not equivalent to "Jeremiah is the Son of Man".
Yours in His grace,
Richard Ghilardi - qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, Connecticut USA
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