[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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