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

Chet Creider creider at uwo.ca
Mon May 30 10:03:50 EDT 2005


Sorry, forget to sign my note.  This is a repost with name.  Chet

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?

Chet Creider



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