[B-Greek] Acts 24:1-2
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Mar 17 05:23:10 EST 2006
(a) There really ought to be some sort of punctuation after PAULOU.
KLHQENTOS DE AUTOU is the standard genitive absolute, and of course
PAULOU is indeed the antecedent of AUTOU.
On Mar 17, 2006, at 12:04 AM, babc2 at comcast.net wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2006 at 22:01, Richard Lindeman wrote:
>
>> Acts 24:1-2 ENEFANISAN TW hHGEMONI KATA TOU PAULOU KLHQENTOS DE AUTOU
>> HRXATO KATHGOREIN hO TERTULLOS LEGWN
>>
>>
>>
>> "They informed the governor against Paul. And when he was called,
>> Tertullus began to accuse, saying"
>>
>>
>>
>> Why does this construction seem so awkward to me?
>>
>> I want to say that PAULOU is the antecedent of AUTOU because it is in
>> agreement, but is it possible that hO TERTULLOS is the antecedent?
>>
>> And why is TERTULLOS in the nominative case here when it is the
>> subject of the infinitive?
>>
>>
> Look again, and I think you will find that TERTULLOS is not the
> subject of the
> infinitive but of HRXATO.
>
> B. D. Colt, babc2 at comcast.net
>
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