[B-Greek] KAQWS & ORATIO OBLIQUA Acts 15:4
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 11 06:48:51 EDT 2006
On Aug 10, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>
> 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:
I wouldn't want to be dogmatic about this; the SECOND 'KAQWS' looks
more like an adverbial conjunction, but I'm not really so sure that
the FIRST 'KAQWS' isn't being used exactly as would a hOTI. As I said
at the outset, I'm conjecturing here.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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