[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 14:8 - word order
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun May 29 08:33:03 EDT 2005
On Sunday, May 29, 2005, at 07:31AM, A. J. Birch <AJBIRCH at terra.es> wrote:
>Dear 'B-Greekers',
>
>1 Cor. 14:8a: "KAI GAR EAN ADHLON SALPIGX FWNHN DWi..."
>
>The point about the emphasis falling on the word "ADHLON" seems clear enough, and Iver Larsen's contribution goes some way to answering Mike Sangrey's (last) question, but I still have two questions:
>
>(1) Are there other examples in the Greek New Testament of this kind of word-order (I don't mean the position of "ADHLON", but the order of the four words "ADHLON SALPIGX FWNHN DWi")?
>
>(2) Might it be possible that the Apostle Paul intended a kind of 'play on words' here - a somewhat unexpected word-order to convey the idea of an unclear trumpet-sound? In other words, might there be a message in the structure here?
I think other examples of this--at least the fronted placement of ADHLON including its
spatial separation from the noun with which it agrees--could be found but I don't have the tools with me at the moment to do the search. Iver has already commented on this, but in my exchange with Jim West earlier this morning I noted that 1 Cor is especially replete with instances of Greek rhetoric: you might look particularly through the Greek text of 1 Cor 1-4 where Paul is contrasting
hH TWN ANQRWPWN SOFIA with hH TOU QEOU SOFIA. The same rhetorical emphasis is clearly evident in
the chapter on AGAPH, 1 Cor 13.
Carl W. Conrad
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