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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 14 15:09:03 EDT 2006


If this were all that we had, I would agree with you regarding the positioning of the main participant.  Since, however, Paul is mentioned immediately preceding this as having been left in Athens, I see no particular problem.
 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
To: greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:02:46 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Acts 17:16 QEWROUNTOS/QEWROUNTI


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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