[B-Greek] grammatical structure of Luke 2.27
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 10:51:21 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
Response: I think I get what you are asking, let me know if I don't answer you. The first constuction is EN + TWi + infinitive gives a contemporaneous idea of "when, while, as etc.) So in Luke KAI [EN TWi EISAYAYEIN] TOUS GENEIS "when the parents brought the child..." The subject of the infinitive is in the accusative so TOUS GENEIS is the subject of the infinitive EISAGAGEIN.
The second part is TOU + infinitive = purpose. Whenever you see this construction it is a purpose clause. TOU POIHSAI AUTOUS" in order to do for him..."
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