[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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