[B-Greek] Acts 16:25 praying and singing?
Craig Johnson
newsgroupstuff at gmail.com
Mon May 15 13:24:44 EDT 2006
So under the Wallace scheme, what kind of participle would you
classify PROSEUCOMENOI as? Is there more than one valid possibility
for how to read it?
Thanks!
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Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
Blog Experiment: http://bloggledegook.blogspot.com/
On 5/15/06, Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> "A" is a better statement, at any rate. My real point is that ancient
> Greek and modern English have distinct idiomatic ways of formulating
> the relationships of time (priority, contemporaneity, posteriority)
> and circumstantiality (causality, concession, contingency, etc.).
> Even where verbal actions are contemporaneous and not causally or
> temporally linked to each other, Greek tends to use a single primary
> verb and subordinate one or more contemporaneous verbal actions or
> states. For example, English "The adults dined together and talked
> about current events " is likely to be formulated in ancient Greek as
> "The adults dined together, talking about current events." If one or
> more actions should be temporally prior to another, ancient Greek
> tends to put the prior actions into an aorist participle, e.g., "The
> adults discussed current events and then dined together" becomes hOI
> TELEIOI TA TOTE DIALALHSANTES SUNANEKEINTO.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
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