[B-Greek] AGGELOS in Acts 27:23: suspenseful hyperbaton?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 28 16:15:00 EST 2007


On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:


Acts 27:23 PARESTH GAR MOI TAUTHi THi NUKTI TOU QEOU, hOU EIMI [EGW] hWi
KAI LATREUW, AGGELOS.


> One may, of course, claim that TOU QEOU, hOU EIMI [EGW] hWi KAI
> LATREUW is the prominent element in this formulation; I wouldn't
> dispute that myself -- BUT -- I do think that AGGELOS has a climactic
> impact of its own when it is heard at last following those other
> words, ...

Carl,

I am somewhat mystified by the comment of Parsons/Culy (Acts Handbook  
p520-21) saying that TOU QEOU is "fronted". First off fronting  
(clause level) normally implies a location prior to the main verb.  
Secondly, it looks to me like AGGELOS was postponed for some reason.  
If TOU QEOU was "fronted" then one would expect the following word  
order to be perfectly lucid:

PARESTH GAR MOI TAUTHi THi NUKTI hOU EIMI [EGW] hWi
KAI LATREUW TOU QEOU AGGELOS.

but placing TOU QEOU after the relative clause isn't the best way to  
do things.

Elizabeth Kline







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