[B-Greek] Acts 17:16 QEWROUNTOS/QEWROUNTI

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 14 14:02:46 EDT 2006


ACTS 17:16 EN DE TAIS AQHNAIS EKDECOMENOU AUTOUS TOU PAULOU  
PARWXUNETO TO PNEUMA AUTOU EN AUTWi QEWROUNTOS KATEIDWLON OUSAN THN  
POLIN.

Parsons/Culy identify QEWROUNTOS as a genitive absolute. Barrett  
(Acts ICC) suggests that the genitive QEWROUNTOS looks back to AUTOU  
whereas QEWROUNTI (Byzantine) to AUTWi.

Interesting syntax.

The main clause
PARWXUNETO TO PNEUMA AUTOU EN AUTWi

  with three qualifying constituents

EN DE TAIS AQHNAIS

EKDECOMENOU AUTOUS TOU PAULOU

QEWROUNTOS KATEIDWLON OUSAN THN POLIN

Curious that the identity of the main participant TOU PAULOU would be  
buried in one of the qualifying constituents.


Elizabeth Kline







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