[B-Greek] Accusative of retained object

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Tue May 22 19:28:51 EDT 2007


Iver Larsen wrote;
 >-------------------------------------
>Iver Larsen now adds a second thought and more details about objects, 
>indirect objects and passives.
>
>Entrust is like "give" and a few other verbs semantically trivalent and 
>grammatically ditransitive,
>so let me use "give" as an example to illustrate:
>
>Active: God gave the Scriptures to the Jews (= God gave the Jews the 
>Scriptures)
>This construction semantically has an agent, patient and 
>beneficiary/receiver. Grammatically it has
>a subject, an object and an indirect object.
>
>Because it is ditransitive, it can be made into a passive in two ways:
>
>1. Object-to-subject passivization: The Scriptures were given to the Jews 
>(by God)
>2. IndirectObject-to-subject passivization: The Jews were given the 
>Scriptures (by God)
>
[snip]
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And
>In Romans 3:2 we find a PT2 which gives us:
>EPISTEUQHSAN TA LOGIA TOU QEOU
>(the Jews) were entrusted (with) the word(s) of God (by God)
>(If English requires a "with" here, that is a peculiarity that is of no 
>consequence for the
>analysis. TA LOGIA TOU QEOU is the object for EPISTEUQHSAN).
>
I guess English doesn't require "with" but it is more natural with it.
If instead of EPISTEUQHSAN Rom. 3:2  had read  EDOQHSAN I would probably 
have read this verse without even a hickup.  Entrust is almost a compound 
verb (entrust-with) and it is this "with" that threw me off.

Bert de Haan





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