[B-Greek] Waiting and watching (Acts 28:6)??

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Dec 14 05:16:48 EST 2007


On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Webb Mealy wrote:

> EPI POLU DE AUTWN PROSDOKWNTWN KAI QEWROUNTWN MHDEN ATOPON EIS AUTON
> GINOMENON, METABALOMENOI ELEGON AUTON EINAI QEON.
>
> But after a long time of waiting and watching, (with) nothing out of  
> the
> ordinary happening to him, they changed their minds and started  
> saying he
> was a god.
>
>
> Is there any chance that this is what the author is saying, or is  
> the usual
> rendering definitely what's going on:
>
> But after a waiting long time, and seeing nothing out of the ordinary
> happening to him, they changed their minds and started saying he was  
> a god.

I'd say that the "usual" rendering is accurate. MHDEN ATOPON EIS AUTON  
GINOMENON functions as the object of QEWROUNTWN (verbs of perception  
tend to take "indirect discourse" with a participle rather than with  
an infinitive.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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