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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Jan 2 18:01:45 EST 2006


On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:43:23 +0000 "Bert de Haan" <b_dehaan at sympatico.ca>
writes:
> 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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I think what we have here is a simple result clause.  The "something"
that he does is PANTAS.

george
gfsomsel
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