[B-Greek] DIAPONHQEIS ... KAI EPISTREYAS Acts 16:18
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 12 00:38:58 EDT 2006
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> I begin to think that we're treating categories of participles the
> same way we treat adnominal genitives, as if there really IS a
> syntactic difference in the Greek between a subjective genitive and
> an objective genitive; likewise there really IS a syntactic
> difference between a causal participle or concessive participle or
> circumstantial participle. To me it seemed a breakthrough of
> understanding when I first saw that CUM + subjunctive clauses in
> Latin (and ablative absolutes, like genitive absolutes in Greek)
> simply say, "The circumstance being that X ... " -- and that whether
> you translate a particular CUM + subjunctive clause as "when ...,"
> "since ...," "although ..." really is a matter of interpretation that
> may be assisted by the presence of other particles or adverbs -- NOT
> a matter of the syntactic structure itself bearing three or more
> subcategories of meaning.
Carl,
I think every Greek student should print your remarks (above) and
paste it inside the cover of Mounce, Machen, Wallace or what ever. It
is all too easy to fall into the trap you have pointed out.
Dr.Vance,
Thank you for your helpful comments.
Elizabeth Kline
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