[B-Greek] grammatical structure of Luke 2.27 extra
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 11:58:27 EDT 2005
By the way, I re-read your post and realized that I did not mention the pronouns.
The first one is accusative because it is the subject of the infinitive. Infinitives like their subjects in the accusative.
TOU POIHSAI AUTOUS = in order they would do for him.... but I don't think you have to translate this AUTOUS, since TOUS GENEIS is already mentioned.
So you get "in order to do for him or concerning him..."
And the second AUTOU is following PERI. PERI + AUTOU= concerning him.
If I am reading you right the first AUTOUS would not make sense in the genitive case. Because TO PAIDION is already the object of EISAGAGEIN. When the parents brought in the child, namely Jesus. The subjuntive clause construction would not work either unless it was preceded by a hINA clause first. "So that they might do for him..."
So tying all this together, and when the parents brought in the child, Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law.
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Kelton Graham
KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
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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
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