[B-Greek] grammatical structure of Luke 2.27

walde waldemar_martens at web.de
Wed Oct 5 11:41:14 EDT 2005


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>
>
>> 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..."
> ---



Hi,
thanks for Your answer. The mailing list obviously does not support bolt 
typed letters. I did not realize this. Sorry.
I think that you understood my problem. Is there a particular name for the 
grammatical constructions, you describe? I would like to read something 
about this in my grammar book.

Walde



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