[B-Greek] KAQWS & ORATIO OBLIQUA Acts 15:4

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 10 22:49:11 EDT 2006


On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> I confess to be guessing here, but my guess is consistent with what  
> I know of Hellenistic usage:
>
> hWS was already commonly used in earlier (classical Attic) Greek as  
> an equivalent of hOTI to introduce indirect discourse as KAQWS is  
> used in Acts 15:4.
> KATA/KAQ' is increasingly used as a prefix on adjectival and  
> adverbial expressions. I personally don't think there's an ounce of  
> difference between hWS PRWTON hO QEOS EPESKEYATO KTL. and KAQWS  
> PRWTON hO QEOS EPESKEYATO KTL. Think of colloquial English  
> expressions such as "He allowed as how ... " where "as how" means  
> "that" --

Carl,

If I understand you here, KAQWS in Acts 15:14 would not have the  
semantic component MANNER as indicated by Louw and Nida 89.86:

  " markers of an event indicating how something took place — ‘how,  
in what manner.’ ‘Simon explained how God first showed his care for  
the Gentiles by taking from them a people to belong to  
him’ (literally ‘… for his name’) Ac 15:14."

ACTS 15:14 SUMEWN EXHGHSATO KAQWS PRWTON hO QEOS EPESKEYATO LABEIN EX  
EQNWN LAON TWi ONOMATI AUTOU.  15 KAI TOUTWi SUMFWNOUSIN hOI LOGOI  
TWN PROFHTWN KAQWS GEGRAPTAI:

Elizabeth Kline







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