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

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun May 29 07:58:28 EDT 2005



Carl W Conrad wrote:

>But in fact this sort of emphatic placement of ADHLON is perfectly common
>in ancient Greek and needs no Hebrew background to explain it.
>
>Also worth noting is that the adjective is ADHLON, not AHLON: I think AHLON
>would mean something like "un-nailed."
>
>  
>

But in point of fact, Paul was a Jew.  Thus it would be perfectly 
reasonable for a well trained Rabbi such as he was, knowledgeable of 
Hebrew as he was, that he would think in Hebrew.  That the construction 
of the sentence is acceptable Greek does not change the fact that it is 
also typical Hebrew.  One almost hears remnants of the notion that there 
is no Hebrew influence in the Greek of the New Testament at all.  I 
would dispute that misunderstanding.

Jim

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