[B-Greek] periphrastic perfect in Luke 1.6?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Thu Nov 17 15:57:11 EST 2005


On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Flia Smith wrote:

> XARIS KAI EIRHNH
> I need to know if is there a tmesis of the periphrastic perfect
> "hsan.....poreuómenoi" in Luke 1.6, or if the verb "hsan" is  
> working with
> the adjective "amemptoi". Could anyone help me?

Text: HSAN DE DIKAIOI AMFOTEROI ENANTION TOU QEOU, POREUOMENOI EN  
PASAIS TAIS ENTOLAIS KAI DIKAIWMASIN TOU KURIOU AMEMPTOI

In this sentence I think we ought to see DIKAIOI, and POREUOMENOI KTL  
as parallel nominative complements to HSAN; in fact, the participial  
phrase POREUOMENOI EN PASAIS TAIS ENTOLAIS KAI DIKAIWMASIN TOU KURIOU  
AMEMPTOI is really pretty much a clarification of what the narrator  
understands DIKAIOI to mean. I would add that AMEMPTOI here is not a  
third complement but a predicate adjective used adverbially with  
POREUOMENOI: "walking blameless(ly)."

Carl W. Conrad
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