[B-Greek] ACTS 18:18 TOIS ADELFOIS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Dec 25 08:41:27 EST 2006


>On Monday, December 25, 2006, at 08:24AM, "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 12/25/06, Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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>>> There's no need whatsoever, unless one is endeavoring to be "woodenly literal," to preserve the word-order of the Greek in English. I'd write your alternatives thus:
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>>> (1) But Paul stayed a few days longer  with the brothers, said farewell and set sail for Syria ...
>>> (2) But Paul stayed a few days longer, said farewell to the brothers, and set sail for Syria ...
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>>> The question is simply whether to understand TOIS ADELFOIS as a dative complement with the ptc. PROSMEINAS or rather with the ptc. APOTAXAMENOS. Iver has steadfastly insisted that the dative MUST be construed with PROSMEINAS; I and some others are more inclined to think the dative should be construed with APOTAXAMENOS. I think there's also been a suggestion that it be taken APO KOINOU, i.e., that it construes with both, or that at any rate, if it construes with PROSMEINAS, it is implicitly understood with APOTAXAMENOS as well. That would yield something like:
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>>>      But Paul stayed a few days longer with the brothers, bade them farewell and then set sail for Syria
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>>May I ask something different in this text? I thought hHMERAS hIKANAS
>>(considerable days longer) was describing Paul's stay there in Corinth
>>of about 18 months duration. But you say 'a few days longer'.  Am I
>>mistaken?
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>I hardly think that this "a few days longer" refers to the extended stay of several months. It is a matter rather of extending what is already a "long stay" by a few days more. At least that's the sense that I get from the PROS- and the ETI elements in this passage.
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>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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