[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
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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