[B-Greek] Matt. 21:22 LHMYESQE

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 19:54:30 EDT 2006


Dr. Carl Conrad:

You wrote...
> LHMYOMAI "I'll get it in my hot little hands."

Do you mean this as something I will receive from
someone else (I'll be more of a recipient), or
something I'll acquire on my own doing (more middle)?

It seems like the idea is that if you pray believing,
you will be the recipient of something, rather than
grasping something yourself. I may not be
understanding your words or terminology. Could you
restate your point another way.

Mitch Larramore

--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

>  
> On Tuesday, August 29, 2006, at 03:18PM, Mitch
> Larramore wrote:
> 
> >KAI PANTA hOSA AN AITHSHTE EN THi PROSEUCHi
> >PISTEUONTES LHMYESQE
> >
> >My parser identifies LHMYESQE as Future Middle. Why
> is
> >this a Middle and not a Passive? Does a Middle mean
> >that the subject brings about the answered prayer
> in
> >some way??
> 
> The future tense of LAMBANW is LHMYOMAI. As I noted
> last night, 
> this is one of a sizable number of present-tense
> actives that
> have the future-tense form in the middle (there is
> no LHMYW).
> My guess is that the verbal concept in these verbs
> when projected
> into the future involves subject-focus, e.g. LAMBANW
> "I grasp"--
> LHMYOMAI "I'll get it in my hot little hands."
> 
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
> 


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