[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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