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

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Jan 3 06:45:02 EST 2006


 
On Monday, January 02, 2006, at 06:04PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at juno.com> wrote:

>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.
>_______________
>
>I think what we have here is a simple result clause.  The "something"
>that he does is PANTAS.

I think I'd be more inclined to say that hINA DWSIN here is precisely what the later and Modern Greek infinitive is, i.e., it's best to understand hINA DWSIN as a semantic equivalent to DOUNAI (MG NA DOUN): "he makes them all PUT the stamp on their right hand or on their forehead" or "he causes them all to put the stamp on ..."

Carl W. Conrad
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