[B-Greek] John 5:29

Doug Chaplin lists at actually.me.uk
Tue Jan 31 17:16:28 EST 2006


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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] John 5:29

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923-).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.

1993.
GENITIVE OF PURPOSE: Some grammarians classify certain descriptive genitives

as genitives of purpose. The inflected form (women's locker room, boys' 
bicycles) is matched by a periphrastic form made usually with for rather 
than the otherwise more frequent of (locker rooms for women, bicycles for 
boys).

Dony K. Donev


[Doug] I'd note that this is about American Grammar, not about Greek
Grammar, and the cases do not absolutely correspond between the languages.
I'd further note that "Some grammarians classify ... " firmly implies that
some grammarians do not classify it in this way.
As Webb says, "for life, for condemnation" are perfectly possible
interpretations, but there's nothing that demands a purposive construction
at the grammatical level, as opposed to the wider semantic level. Equally,
there's nothing that denies it.

Doug Chaplin
Droitwich Spa




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