[B-Greek] John 6:9

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Dec 14 13:33:45 EST 2007


I guess so, if you prefer the English of "But what is these?" I was  
somewhat taken aback by noting that this is a response to a message  
more than six months ago.



On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Dony K. Donev wrote:

> Wouldn't a proper rendering keep the singular verb as it is in the  
> Greek text:
>
> "But these: what is it for so many?"
>
>
> Dony K. Donev
> ________________________
> Sent from my Google Phone
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2006, at 7:45 AM, frjsilver at optonline.net wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends --
>>
>> Isn't the subject here actually TI?
>>
>> The parenthetic question TI ESTIN is a grammatical capsule with its
>> own subject and verb, which agree in number.  TAUTA (neuter plural)
>> has merely an implied verb, if any.
>>
>> In English, maybe this comes out to something like 'But these (few)
>> things -- what is *that* to (so many) of those people?'
>
> Some might prefer to think of TI as the subject of ESTIN, but for my
> part, I'd rather view the TI as a predicate word ("but these: what
> are they for that number of people?"
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at ioa.com or cwconrad2 at mac.com
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