[B-Greek] grammatical structure of Luke 2.27

walde waldemar_martens at web.de
Wed Oct 5 10:10:11 EDT 2005


Hello,
I have a problem in understanding the grammatical structure of the following:
KAI EN TW EISAGAGEIN TOUS GONEIS TO PAIDION IHSOUN TOU POIHSAI AUTOUS KATA...

More precisely the two bolt typed pronouns have caused me to be confused. According to my understanding of this passage, the first pronoun should be in the Genitive case ("In the bringing in of s.b.") and the the second one even could be omitted or replaced by a subjunctive construction ("in order to do sth."). So why is there Akkusative and Genitive? An ACI-construction is quite unlikely because there is no verb to introduce it.

Thanks for your Help!
Walde


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