[B-Greek] Luke 5:1 EN TWi + infinitive

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 26 13:07:28 EDT 2007


The second infinitive clause KAI AKOUEIN TON LOGON TOU QEOU could be  
understood as a statement of purpose and not a second argument for EN  
TWi.

Elizabeth Kline

On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:

>
> Luke 5:
>
> 01 Ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν τῷ
> τὸν ὄχλον ἐπικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ
> καὶ ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ
> καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν ἑστὼς παρὰ τὴν  
> λίμνην Γεννησαρέτ,
> 02 καὶ εἶδεν δύο πλοῖα ἑστῶτα παρὰ  
> τὴν λίμνην
> οἱ δὲ ἁλιεῖς ἀπ αὐτῶν ἀποβάντες
> ἔπλυνον τὰ δίκτυα.
>
> 01 EGENETO DE EN TWi
> TON OCLON EPIKEISQAI AUTWi
> KAI AKOUEIN TON LOGON TOU QEOU
> KAI AUTOS HN ESTWS PARA THN LIMNHN GENNHSARET,
> KAI EIDEN DUO PLOIA ESTWTA PARA THN LIMNHN
> OI DE ALIEIS AP AUTWN APOBANTES
> EPLUNON TA DIKTUA
>
> I assume that both OCLON and AKOUEIN are functioning to indicate
> contemporaneous time as discussed in Funk:
>
>> 836.1 The articular infinitive appears with prepositions in temporal
>> clauses as follows: ἐν τῷ (EN TWi) and the infinitive are  
>> used of
>> contemporaneous time, μετὰ τό (META TO) for subsequent  
>> time, πρὸ τοῦ
>> (PRO TOU) for previous time, ἕως τοῦ (hEWS TOU) of future  
>> time, all in
>> relation to the time of the main verb. Bl-D §§402-404.
>>
>
> Funk's examples show only one verb acting as an object of EN TWi this
> way, but I assume that multiple infinitives can serve as objects to  
> one
> EN TWi, and that this is an example that functions that way? Here are
> the notes I wrote on this - are they correct?
>
> ἐν τῷ (EN TWi) + infinitive used for contemporaneous time,  
> Funk 836.1,
> Bl-D §§402-404. The two infinitives ἐπικεῖσθαι  
> (EPIKEISQAI) and ἀκούειν
> (AKOUEIN) are
> objects of the ἐν τῷ (EN TWi) construction, the periphrastic  
> imperfect
> ἦν ἑστὼς (HN hESTWS) contains the main verb - "while they  
> were crowding
> around
> him and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the sea
> of Galilee









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