[B-Greek] Acts 16:25 praying and singing?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 15 14:07:34 EDT 2006


Probably simply temporal: "As they prayed, the sang hymns ..."

On May 15, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Craig Johnson wrote:

> 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
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>
>
> 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
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>> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





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