[B-Greek] Alford on Acts 7:59

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 7 20:50:56 EDT 2007


It would help if you refrained from eliminating the text we are discussing.

TEXT
καὶ ἐλιθοβόλουν τὸν Στέφανον ἐπικαλούμενον καὶ λέγοντα· κύριε Ἰησοῦ, δέξαι τὸ πνεῦμά μου. 
KAI ELIQOBOLOUN TON STEFANON EPIKALOUMENON KAI LEGONTA, "KURIE IHSOU, DEICAI TO PNEUMA MOU."

As I attempted to indicate, the only preceding -ον [-ON] would have to be ἐπικαλούμενον [EPIKALOUMENON].  If θεοῦ[QEOU] were to be "omitted in the text, being absorbed by the preceding -on", why would it be omitted?  It would only be likely if the ending were THE SAME, i.e. if it were not θεοῦ [QEOU] but θεόν [QEON] (This is known in textual criticism as "homoioteleuton").  I therefore think you have misrepresented Alford since the form θεοῦ [QEOU] would be a genitive and precisely NOT what he is opposing.  
 
george
gfsomsel
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: "bwmeyers at toast.net" <bwmeyers at toast.net>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 7:21:48 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Alford on Acts 7:59


frjsilver at optonline.net wrote:

>OH!  It's all becoming clear to me now!
>
>The problem is that Alford (whoever that is) thinks 
>that IHSOU is gennetic -- but it's NOT.

-- but he DOESN'T.  Alford, as I quoted him is obviously
opposing those who try to make it genitive.

Thanks to you 3 who have responded: but I still don't see
an answer to my problem with Alford's last statement:
what he could possibly mean by "who supposed Theou 
to have been omitted in the text, being absorbed by the 
preceding -on"?

Bob
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