[B-Greek] hO KAI EPOIHSA? (Acts 26:10)

Webb Mealy webb at selftest.net
Tue Dec 11 19:40:38 EST 2007


Acts 26:9-10 reads,

 

EGW MEN OUN EDOXA EMAUTWi PROS TO ONOMA IHSOU TOU N. DEIN POLLA ENANTIA
PRAXAI, hO KAI EPOIHSA EN hIEROSOLUMOIS.

 

Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the
name of Jesus of Nazareth. And that is what I did in Jerusalem…(NRSV)

 

BDF classifies the hO in hO KAI EPOIHSA as “‘a relative connective’ (i.e. a
loosening of the connection of the relative clause to the preceding complex
sentence), something intermediate between a relative clause and a
demonstrative clause” (BDF para. 458, pp. 240f.). Zerwick-Grosvenor renders
POLLA ENANTIA PRAXAI of v. 9 as “to put up strong opposition”. If that is
truly how a Koine Greek speaker would read the expression, does that qualify
hO (in place of hA) as a constructio ad sensum? If so, is that a
conflicting, complementary, useful or useless analysis in relation to that
of BDF? 

 

Obviously real Koine Greek speakers didn’t have any particular problem with
hO following POLLA, or there would have been a texual variant there. Or is
hO resuming PRAXAI??

 

Webb Mealy


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