[B-Greek] Help!

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue May 24 13:41:32 EDT 2005


 
On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, at 12:53PM, Elizabeth Kline <kline-dekoning at earthlink.net> wrote:

>On 5/24/05 9:44 AM, "Elizabeth Kline" <kline-dekoning at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Using that approach, how would you analyze the following:
>> 
>> POION TON MUQON EEIPES   Iliad A552 ?
>> 
>> POION [EISTIN] TON MUQON [hON] EEIPES  ?   (Herb. Smyth num. 2647)
>> 
>> How does it differ from
>> 
>> TINA LEGOUSIN hOI ANQRWPOI EINAI TON hUION TOU ANQRWPOU  Matt. 16:13 ?
>
>Just for starters,
>
>[ESTIN]  in  POION [EISTIN] TON MUQON [hON] EEIPES does not perform the same
>role in the syntax as EISTIN in  Matt. 16:13.

Actually, the sentence from Homer is somewhat different in nature from the other; the implicit structure is hOUTOS hO MUQOS hON EEIPES, POIOS ESTIN? or POIOS ESTIN hOUTOS hO MUQOS hON EEIPES --but in the Homeric formulation the object of EEIPES TOUTON TON LOGON has the predicate word -- the interrogative adjective POIOS -- given as a predicate adjective to TOUTON TON MUQON: "You have spoken this word as what kind (of) word" = "What kind of word is this word which you have spoken?"

But I'm not sure there's anything quite equivalent to that in NT Koine Greek.

Carl W. Conrad
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