[B-Greek] 1Jn 4:13 Looking for the object for the verb

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 8 00:04:47 EST 2007


On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> 1Jn 4:13
>
> EN TOUTW GINWSKOMEN
> hOTI EN AUTW MENOMEN KAI AUTOS EN hHMIN
> hOTI EK TOU PNEUMATOS AUTOU DEDWKEN hHMIN
>
> I am looking for the object of the verb DEDWKEN on the last line.  Why
> some English translations take PNEUMATOS as its object when it is part
> of a phrase EK ~?

Oun, I have not studied this particular text but the following is  
information gathered while working on Acts 19:33.

EK + gen can serve as either the subject or the object of a finite verb.

EX hUMWN is the object of QANATWSOUSIN

  LUKE 21:16 PARADOQHSESQE DE KAI hUPO GONEWN KAI ADELFWN KAI  
SUGGENWN KAI FILWN, KAI QANATWSOUSIN EX hUMWN,

  EK TOU OCLOU is the subject of  SUNEBIBASAN

ACTS 19:33 EK DE TOU OCLOU SUNEBIBASAN ALEXANDRON, PROBALONTWN AUTON  
TWN IOUDAIWN: hO DE ALEXANDROS KATASEISAS THN CEIRA HQELEN  
APOLOGEISQAI TWi DHMWi.

EK TWN MAQHTWN AUTOU is the subject of EIPAN

JOHN 16:17 EIPAN OUN EK TWN MAQHTWN AUTOU PROS ALLHLOUS: TI ESTIN  
TOUTO hO LEGEI hHMIN: MIKRON KAI OU QEWREITE ME, KAI PALIN MIKRON KAI  
OYESQE ME; KAI: hOTI hUPAGW PROS TON PATERA;

See BDF #164.2 and Smyth 928b,1318 who cites examples from X.H. 
4.2.20, X.A.3.5.16 both with finite verbs.

According to G.Cooper (Attic Syntax 1:47:15:4,5) the partitive  
genitive functioning as the subject of a verb can be understood  
something like an elided indefinite plural pronoun. Cooper cites the  
same examples as Smyth and adds two from Hdt, 3.102.2, 6.58.2  but  
these have participles not finite verbs.

I read somewhere that this is a common pattern in the LXX but I don't  
have any examples.


Elizabeth Kline







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