[B-Greek] 1Co 10:22a ?Interrogative

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Feb 2 07:16:59 EST 2007


On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> 1Co 10:22a
> H PARAZHLOUMEN TON KURION;
>
> Please help me to see what makes this sentence interrogative.

10:21 OU DUNASQE POTHRION KURIOU PINEIN KAI POTHRION DAIMONIWN OU  
DUNASQE TRAPEZHS KURIOU METECEIN KAI TRAPEZHS DAIMONIWN 22  H  
PARAZHLOUMEN TON KURION?  MH ISCUROTEROI AUTOU ESMEN?

Context, really. in 10:21 you have the two declarative clauses: "you  
can't ... " and "you can't"; the )\H indicates that what follows in  
10:22 is an alternative to "you can't ... ": "or we make the Lord  
angry (if we do what we 'can't" do). The MH clause that follows is  
(unquestionably) a question introduced with the MH "surely we're not  
more powerful than he, are we?" Certainly )\H is used in an  
interrogative sense as suggesting an alternative to what has been  
stated previously,


Carl W. Conrad
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