[B-Greek] Phillipians 2:6 - controlling verb?
William Ross
woundedegomusic at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 11:10:54 EDT 2006
Thank you for your quick response.
I wonder if it would it all be grammatically possible that the participle is
independent and concessive? Ie: "although he presently is in the form of a
god..." This would, it seems, then cohere with the rest of the passage
where he shows how he did not go about getting to this position (by
robbery), and how in reality he was placed in this position (the god highly
exalted him). The lesson then seems in keeping with other similar passages:
Mr 9:35 And sitting down, he called the twelve, and says to them: If any
one desires first to be, he will be of all last, and of all a servant.
Mr 10:44 and whoever may wish of you to become first, shall be of all a
slave.
This does seem to be the broader context:
Php 2:5 For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
Might this be grammatically possible as well?
On 8/11/06, Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 11, 2006, at 9:31 AM, William Ross wrote:
>
> > Is there a controlling verb for hUPARCWN in Phillipians 2:6?
>
>
> It helps to have the whole of the relevant text:
>
> ... EN CRISTWi IHSOU, hOS EN MORFHi QEOU hUPARCWN, OUC hARPAGMON
> hHGHSATO TO EINAI ISA QEWi ...
>
> I think the syntax of the clause in which hUPARCWN appears is
> reasonably simple:
>
> hOS (with CRISTWi IHSOU as antecedent) is the subject, hHGHSATO the
> verb of the clause; hUPARCWN is nom. sg. masc. ptc. in agreement with
> hOS and adverbially qualifying the verb hHGHSATO. The verb hUPARCW is
> more or less synonymous with EIMI, "be."
>
> cf. BDAG s.v. 2: " to be in a state or circumstance, be as a widely
> used substitute in H. Gk. for EINAI, but in some of the foll. pass.
> the sense 'be inherently (so)' or 'be really' cannot be excluded ... "
>
> Of course, there are several OTHER problems in this text, but the
> grammatical function of hUPARCWN is not one.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>
>
>
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