[B-Greek] Acts 17:26-27

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 30 22:03:41 EST 2006


Elizabeth: 

On this...

--- Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> ACTS 17:26 EPOIHSEN TE EX hENOS PAN EQNOS ANQRWPWN
> KATOIKEIN EPI  
> PANTOS PROSWPOU THS GHS, hORISAS PROSTETAGMENOUS
> KAIROUS KAI TAS  
> hOROQESIAS THS KATOIKIAS AUTWN  27 ZHTEIN TON QEON,
> EI ARA GE  
> YHLAFHSEIAN AUTON KAI hEUROIEN, KAI GE OU MAKRAN APO
> hENOS hEKASTOU  
> hHMWN hUPARCONTA.
> 
> Culy & Parsons state that ZHTEIN TON QEON ... is in
> apposition to  
> KATOIKEIN EPI PANTOS PROSWPOU THS GHS. Finding this
> puzzling I looked  
> up appositive/apposition in two dictionaries of
> linguistics R.L.Trask  
> and David Crystal. Trask limited apposition to noun
> phrases but David  
> Crystal did not, he defined it as any two
> constituents at the same  
> grammatical level which are co-referential.
> 
> I was under the mistaken impression that second
> constituent in some  
> way needed to qualify or give further explanation
> about the first  
> constituent. 


Then you say...

Two constituents can be co-referential
> without the  
> second one qualifying the first.

How so?


Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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