[B-Greek] Use of Accusative case

David McCoy davidmcy at io.com
Mon Aug 20 03:45:08 EDT 2007


John:

I looked at this for a while today, and here is what I suppose (i.e. 
guess!) Drs. Packer and Mounce intended:

My translation:
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Praise (implied) God
In whom you (pl) glory,
Who delights freely in the creatures which He has made,
Father, Son, and Spirit.
Amen
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My notes:
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1.  DOXAZETE is 2nd person, not 1st
2.  I think EUDOKHSANTA is a masculine singular accusative aorist 
participle (translate: "one delighting") modifying QEON (it could also be 
neuter plural nominative or accusative, modifying KTISMATA)
3.  I think DWREAN is an adverb "freely"
4.  PEPOIHKEN is 3rd person, not 2nd
5.  The question you asked about "God" in the accusative we have to ask 
about the three accusatives used for "Father, Son, and Spirit" at the end. 
I think they are supposed to agree with the first one, with some implied 
verb (I guessed "Praise") operating with all five accusatives (counting 
also EUDOKHSANTA as one of them).
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Are Drs. Packer and Mounce somewhere reading all these guesses and 
smiling?

In Christ,
David McCoy

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, John M. Linebarger wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:34:13 +0000
> From: John M. Linebarger <jmlineb at comcast.net>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Use of Accusative case
> 
> Please forgive what may seem like an obvious grammatical issue, but I'm just starting to teach an Elementary Greek class at our church and I need to have an explanation for my students.  I'm trying to lighten the class up by singing songs on Bill Mounce's Web site, and I love the Doxology in Greek.  (I'm a former student of J.I. Packer at Regent College, and he always started his class this way, so it brings back great memories.)  The Doxology in Greek can be found at:
>
> http://www.teknia.com/public/pdf/Doxologia.pdf
>
> My question is the accusative case that starts the doxology off:  TON THEON W DOXAZETE. Why is it in the accusative case instead of in the nominative case, especially since the relative pronoun appears to be in the dative case?  I've scoured the usual grammars without success.
>
> Also, is this a reasonable working translation:
>
> God, whom we glorify
> The creatures which you have made delight in [your] gift
> Father, Son, and Spirit, Amen.
>
> Many thanks!  Eulogetoi!
>
> John M. Linebarger
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
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