[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 14:8 - word order
Chet Creider
creider at uwo.ca
Mon May 30 09:41:18 EDT 2005
Randall Buth wrote:
> I am happy to hear a suggestion of Paul using Hebrew (cf. Acts 22:2).
> On the other hand, Hebrew does not like to front more than one item in
> a sentence, rarely two. Yet in 1 Cor 14:8 there are three fronted
> items. The Greek is good and does another thing that Hebrew does not
> do: a Focal item ADHLON is fronted before fronted Topical items,
> SALPIGKS FWNHN. When there are two frontings in Hebrew the first is
> topical the second is usually focal (Focal = 'fronted, i.e. marked,
> most salient piece of predication').
Hi Randall. What you mean by "in 1 Cor 14:8 there are three fronted
items". Specifically, what are they and where are they fronted from?
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