[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 14:8 word order

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sat May 28 18:45:58 EDT 2005


On Sat, 28 May 2005 17:10:14 -0400 Mike Sangrey
<MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org> writes:
> 1 Cor. 14:8
>         EAN ADHLON SALPIGX FWNHN DWi
> 
> Why that word order?
> 
> It's accusative-adj, nominative, accusative, verb.
> 
> Why is the subject wrapped inside the object?
> 
> -- 
> Mike Sangrey
> msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org
> Landisburg, Pa.
>                         "The first one last wins."
>             "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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If you look at the entire structure of the sentence

KAI GAR EAN AHLON SALPIGC FWNHN DWi

KAI obviously joins to what preceeds and GAR, as a postpostitive, must
follow.  The condition is then introduced by EAN.  This makes AHLON the
first significant position in the sentence.  It would therefore seem that
the emphasis is thrown upon the nature (AHLON) of the FWNH which is
given.  

george
gfsomsel
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