[B-Greek] Luke 8:27
Elliot Poe
Elliot.Poe at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 12:18:33 EDT 2007
Just out of curiosity, George, would you then suggest hUPHNTHSEN has an
intransitive meaning?
Yours,
Elliot Poe
George F Somsel wrote:
>While I can understand why you might take AUTWi as a complement of hUPANTHSEN, I think that the fact that it is sandwiched between ECELQONTI DE and EPI THN GHN dictates that it be taken with the participle as the nearer referent.
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>george
>gfsomsel
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>Therefore, O faithful Christian, search for truth, hear truth,
>learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth,
>defend the truth till death.
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>- Jan Hus
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>To: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Rod Rogers <rngrogers at earthlink.net>; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:41:57 AM
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Luke 8:27
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>On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:35 AM, George F Somsel wrote:
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>>Greetings, fellow Hoosier.
>>
>>The AUTWi is the subject of the participle in this verse. The
>>participial phrase tells you when the events narrated in the main
>>verb occurred -- "When he debarked on the land …" You are correct
>>regarding the demoniac being the subject rather than the object
>>here. EK THS POLEWS would indicate the origin of the man yet it
>>also states that he "stayed in [among, near] the tombs" which would
>>indicate his more immediate origin.
>>
>>
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>I'd have to analyze this differently and say that AUTWi is the
>complement of hUPHNTHSEN, the subject of which is ANHR TIS. The
>antecedent of AUTWi is implicitly Jesus from the preceding narrative,
>and EXELQONTI I would call a circumstantial participle qualifying
>AUTWi. "A certain man encountered him (Jesus) as he disembarked onto
>the shore ... "
>
>If you're analyzing AUTWi EXELQONTI as the equivalent of an adverbial
>clause, there's some validity to it. But it seems to me that this is
>looking at the Greek construction from the point of view of how we
>will English it rather than in its own syntactic context.
>
>I'd agree with Elizabeth on this:
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>
>On Jun 29, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
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>>EXELQONTI AUTWi is the dative argument for hUPHNTHSEN. The
>>confrontation is between Jesus and Legion, the disciples were there
>>but the focus is on Jesus and the demoniac. That is one explanation
>>for the AUTWi. There are other reasons for AUTWi but someone else can
>>point them out.
>>
>>
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>This is a by-no-means uncommon participial usage in older Greek
>narrative; in my opinion Luke is probably emulating that usage. It's
>also a very common construction in Classical Latin, e.g. 'mihi
>saepenumero cogitanti de majoribus nostris in mentem venit illius
>clarissimi Scipionis, qui ...' "To me many a time pondering about our
>ancestors the thought has struck of that most distinguished Scipio,
>who ... "
>
>There are some who think that Latin prose usage has had some
>influence on Hellenistic Greek prose; anyone interested (if perchance
>there should be such) can consult the index of BDF under "Latinisms."
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>>You might find it worth while to look at the Majority Text:
>>
>>LUKE 8:27 EXELQONTI DE AUTW EPI THN GHN UPHNTHSEN AUTW ANHR TIS EK
>>THS POLEWS ...
>>
>>Note the repetition of AUTW.
>>
>>
>
>Yes; it looks like LXX imitation of a Hebrew construction with ASHER
>and repetition of the pronoun; this is the sort of text that might
>lead some to conjecture that we have such a thing as a "dative
>absolute" in EXELQONTI AUTWi EPI THN GHN. The likelihood, I think, is
>that Luke might very well have used a genitive absolute here
>(EXELQONTOS AUTOU EPI THN GHN) had it not been so simple to fit the
>phrase into the syntax of the hUPHNTHSEN clause -- and had the author
>not been aware of this sort of syntactic arrangement.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Rod Rogers <rngrogers at earthlink.net>
>>To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:45:56 PM
>>Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 8:27
>>
>>
>>I'm having some problems translating Luke 8:27. Here is the text:
>>
>>
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>>EXELQONTI DE AUTW EPI THN GHN hUPHNTHSEN ANHR TIS EK THS POLEWS
>>EXWN DAIMONIA KAI XRONW hIKANW OUK ENEDUSATO hIMATION KAI EN OIKIA
>>OUK EMENEN ALL EN TOIS MNHMASIN.
>>
>>
>>
>>I'm sure AUTW is part of the participial phrase "EXELQONTI DE AUTW"
>>but I'm not sure how to understand AUTW. Is it a simple dative with
>>"Gaderene" as it's antecedent or is it emphatic meaning "He (Jesus
>>himself) came out (of the boat) or could it be a dative of time as
>>some grammars suggest (after He came out of the boat)..... or what
>>ever?
>>
>>
>>
>>Also, several translations seem to make the ANHR (EXWN DAIMONIA)
>>the direct object instead of the subject. Sounds confusing to me.
>>Shouldn't it be that the demoniac meets Him (Jesus) not Jesus meets
>>the demoniac?
>>
>>
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>>One last thing. Several translations make EK THS POLEWS imply that
>>the demoniac was once a citizen of the city but now resides in the
>>MNHMASIN. I'm not debating where the demoniac resides but the text
>>of Luke 8:27 is not saying that with EK THS POLEWS. Isn't
>>hUPHNTHSEN ANHR TIS EK THS POLEWS EXWN DAIMONIA saying that a
>>certain man with a demon comes out of the city to meet...... (Jesus)?
>>
>>
>>
>>Sorry for so many questions but I'm reluctant to disagree with so
>>many translations. Carl, I have read your comments on "Dative
>>Participle Luke 8:27" back in 1999 but I'd still like to ask these
>>questions if you don't mind. I guess what I don't know is how you
>>know AUTW is the subject of EXELQONTI.
>>
>>
>>
>>rod rogers
>>
>>Bargersville, In
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