[B-Greek] hO KAI EPOIHSA? (Acts 26:10)
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Dec 11 21:24:18 EST 2007
On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:13 PM, George F Somsel wrote:
> You have me confused. I'm not sure what your problem might be here.
>
> 9 Ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ἔδοξα ἐμαυτῷ πρὸς τὸ
> ὄνομα Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναζωραίου δεῖν
> πολλὰ ἐναντία πρᾶξαι, 10 ὃ καὶ
> ἐποίησα ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις, καὶ
> πολλούς τε τῶν ἁγίων ἐγὼ ἐν
> φυλακαῖς κατέκλεισα τὴν παρὰ τῶν
> ἀρχιερέων ἐξουσίαν λαβὼν
> ἀναιρουμένων τε αὐτῶν κατήνεγκα
> ψῆφον.
>
> 9 EGW MEN OUN EDOCA EMAUTWi PROS TO ONOMA IHSOU TOU NAZWRAIOU DEIN
> POLLA ENANTIA PRACAI 10 hO KAI EPOIHSA EN hIEROSOLUMOIS, KAI
> POLLOUS TE TWN hAGIWN EGW EN FULAKAIS KATEKLEISA THN PARA TWN
> ARXIEREWN ECOUSIAN LABWN ANAIROUMENWN TE AUTWN KATHNEGKA YHFON.
>
> hOS refers back to PROS TO ONOMA IHSOU TOU NAZWRAIOU DEIN POLLA
> ENANTIA PRACAI resuming it with the statement that he did such. Am
> I missing your question?
You do mean hO\, don't you, George -- the neuter relative pronoun? I
would understand it the way you're taking it, excluding the DEIN, so
that the hO\ refers to PROS TO ONOMA IHSOU TOU NAZWRAIOU POLLA ENANTIA
PRAXAI: "I thought I had to act in opposition to ... , and that's what
I did."
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Webb Mealy <webb at selftest.net>
> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:40:38 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] hO KAI EPOIHSA? (Acts 26:10)
>
> 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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Carl W. Conrad
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