[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
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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