[B-Greek] ESTIN KAQHMENOS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Sep 3 11:55:58 EDT 2005


On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Col 3:1 contains
>
> ...hOU hO CRISTOS ESTIN EN DEXIAi TOU QEOU KAQHMENOS
>
> I was expecting the commentary to list ESTIN KAQHMENOS
> as a periphrastic construction, but it shows KAQHMENOS
> functioning adverbially to ESTIN. Are they both the
> same grammatically?

I don't understand that. It is indeed a periphrastic construction =  
KAQHTAI.


Carl W. Conrad
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