[B-Greek] MH SUMPARALAMBANEIN Acts 15:38

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 18 14:51:10 EDT 2006


Acts 15:38 PAULOS DE HXIOU, TON APOSTANTA AP' AUTWN APO PAMFULIAS KAI  
MH SUNELQONTA AUTOIS EIS TO ERGON MH SUMPARALAMBANEIN TOUTON.

Culy & Parsons (Acts Handbook, Baylor 2004) give three options in  
thier analysis of SUMPARALAMBANEIN.

1- complement of HXIOU
2- direct object of HXIOU
3- introducing indirect discourse with a verb of cognition

I find this somewhat mystifying. First of all they way I define  
complement option 2 is a restricted form of option 1. But according  
to David Crystall (Dict. of linguistics) complement is sometimes used  
in a restricted sense which would exclude direct objects.

Option number 3 is strange. Where is the indirect discourse? Perhaps  
TOUTON pointing back to TON APOSTANTA AP' AUTWN APO PAMFULIAS KAI MH  
SUNELQONTA AUTOIS EIS TO ERGON could be considered indirect discourse.

A further problem I have with their logic is that all three options  
could be true. I don't see these as mutually exclusive alternatives,  
unless you use the restricted sense of complement and even then  
option 3 doesn't seem to rule out options 1 or 2.



Elizabeth Kline







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