[B-Greek] Adverbial participles - Culy

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 5 11:14:11 EDT 2005


Acts 22:17 contains

EGENETO DE MOI hUPOSTREYANTI EIS IEROUSALHM KAI
PROSEUCOMENOU MOU EN TWi hIERWi GENESQAI ME EN
EKESTASEI

I read an article by a Dr. Culy on Adverbial
participles. At first read, it would appear he teaches
that adverbial participles will be in the nominative
case and oblique case participles will be adjectival
(a few exceptions to this, such as gen. absolutes and
when an infinitive is involved). He then gives the
above passage as an example, saying that
hUPOSTREYANTI, since it is dative, is adjectival.
However, he then says, it is appropriate to translate
it adverbially! What point is there to insisting upon
oblique case participles functioning adjectivally but
may or should be at times translated adverbially? Is
there general agreement that adverbial participles
(with above noted exceptions) MUST be in the
nominative case.


Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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