[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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