[B-Greek] Accusative of retained object

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon May 21 16:10:10 EDT 2007


On May 21, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> ROM. 3:1 TI OUN TO PERISSON TOU IOUDAIOU H TIS hH WFELEIA THS
> PERITOMHS;  2 POLU KATA PANTA TROPON. PRWTON MEN [GAR] hOTI
> EPISTEUQHSAN TA LOGIA TOU QEOU.
>
> PISTEW (BDAG 818 #3) "entrust something to someone" in the active can
> take three arguments (Lk 16:11b), a nominative, an accusative and a
> dative. The equivalent when found in the passive may have the dative
> "transformed" into an accusative. G.Cooper (1.52.4.2,6) doesn't read
> this accusative as an object of the passive verb. He suggests that
> the accusative here is functioning as an adverbial. Carl will
> probably disagree with this analysis.


Reading this over again, I can see now that the transformation of the  
person dative in the active to the accusative in the passive doesn't  
apply to the text under consideration. Since the person(s) is not  
explicitly specified in Rom. 3:2b.


Elizabeth Kline







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