[B-Greek] Parallelism in Luke 1:35

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Thu Aug 10 07:15:08 EDT 2006


Yonah Mishael wrote:

>On another forum (theologyweb.com), we had a poster arguing that Sharp'sfifth rule applies to Luke 1:35. Here is the text:
>πνευμα αγιον επελευσεται επι σε και δυναμις υψιστου επισκιασει σοιPNEUMA hAGION EPELEUSETAI EPI SE KAI DUNAMIS hUYISTOU EPISKIASEI SOI"the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High willovershadow you"
>He was trying to say that the lack of articles on PNEUMA hAGION and DUNAMIShUYISTOU indicate that these two refer to different subjects (which is whatSharp's fifth rule deals with).
>I was telling him that Sharp's rules only apply to the conjunction of nouns(Ns) and noun phrases (NPs), but that this verse has KAI joining twoseparate sentences (Ss). I explained it to him in terms of tree structures:
>{NP KAI NP} ::: meets Sharp's criteria{S KAI S} ::: does not meet his criteria
>Would the members of this list agree with my statement? I see nothing inSharp's words that allows for the conjunction of entire sentences in thismatter. Personally, I would say that this statement in Luke is a simpleparallel. What do you think?
>תודה רבה
>
HH: I agree with you.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard



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