[B-Greek] EN + human locative of sphere

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 8 17:21:18 EST 2007


  Wayne Leman wrote:
> Would any of you be able to come up with a few examples of EN + a  
> human
> locative of sphere in corpora other than the N.T.? I am trying to  
> find out
> how widespread was usage parallel to EN XRISTW, EN KURIW, etc.  
> outside the
> N.T. corpus. I've tried Perseus but I'm not very good at using that
> resource.



I think this is a trick question. The inclusion of "human" as a  
selection criteria makes it a question with a trap built in, the trap  
is you cannot discuss it on b-greek. If you raise the question does  
Paul's use of EN XRISTWi as a mystical state focus on the humanity of  
Jesus you are doing christology which is a no-no in this forum.

I was able to find some examples of EN TWi DII (not human!) in  
Proclus (5th c. AD) but even there Carl's question would come up, is  
this a locative or is it insturmental and in reference to QEOS (not  
human!) there is EN AUTW MESW in Dio Chrysostom (1st&2nd AD). None of  
these meet the criteria Wayne set down so I will not bother to post  
them.




Elizabeth Kline







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