[B-Greek] APEKDUSAMENOI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Sep 3 11:57:17 EDT 2005


On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Col 3:9 contains
>
> MH YEUDESQE EIS ALLHLOUS, APEKDUSAMENOI TON PALAION...
>
> Can APEKDUSAMENOI be treated as a finite Imperative
> (Stop lying to one another. Put off the old...)?

You could, but I think it would be better to understand APEKDUSAMENOI  
as adverbial (circumstantial): "since you have stripped away ... ,  
don't be false ..."


Carl W. Conrad
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