[B-Greek] hINA clause in Rev.13:16

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Mon Jan 2 16:43:23 EST 2006


KAI POIEI PANTAS, TOUS MIKROUS KAI TOUS MEGALOUS, KAI TOUS PLOUSIOUS KAI 
TOUS PTWCOUS, KAI TOUS ELEUQEROUS KAI TOUS DOULOUS, hINA DWSIN AUTOIS 
XARAGMA EPI THS CEIROS AUTWN THS DEXIAS H EPI TO METWPON AUTWN,

This sentence seems strange to me. The first part says that he makes them 
"something"  but it does not say what he makes them. The different Bible 
translations make the part after hINA complete that thought but they do that 
by changing the subjunctive to an infinitive. That leaves the part before 
the hINA clause an incomplete sentence.
I remember reading in B-Greek that hINA with a subjunctive was in the 
proccess of changing (I suspect into infinitive) but I couln't find it in 
the archives. Is that what I am dealing with here?
Thank you.
Bert de Haan.





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