[B-Greek] Galatians participles & one genitive.

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu May 31 06:03:45 EDT 2007


On May 30, 2007, at 10:14 PM, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:

> I need someone to double check me here.  I am flipping through  
> Galatians and need some other opinions on how some of the  
> participles are behaving.
>
> 3:15 ADELFOI KATA ANQRWPON LEGW hOMWS ANQRWPOU KEKURWMENHN DIAQHKHN  
> OUDEIS AQETEI H EPIDIATASSETAI
>
> I am thinking KEKURWMENHN here is temporal.
>
> 3:1: W ANOHTOI GALATAI TIS hUMAS EBASKANEN hOIS KAT OFQALMOUS  
> IHSOUS CRISTOS PROEGRAFH ESTAURWMENOS
>
> I am thinking ESTAURWMENOS here is acting like a predicate and not  
> adverbial at all.

I really don't understand what you mean by saying that you think  
KEKURWMENHN is "temporal." I don't think it has anything to do with  
time as such but rather underscores  the state of the DIAQHKH as "in  
full force"; it is, to be sure, used as a predicate adjective:  
"Nobody nullifies a treaty that is in full force ... "

And the same is true of ESTAURWMENOS -- yes, it too is predicative:  
"before whose eyes was painted a picture of Jesus Christ on the  
cross ... "
>
> And the genitive I am concerned with is
> Gal 1:14 KAI PROEKOPTON EN TWi IOUDA hUPER POLLOUS SUNHLIKIWTAS EN  
> TWi GENEI MOU PERISSOTERWS ZHLWTHS hUPARCWN TWN PATRIKWN MOU  
> PARADOSEWN
>
> I am thinking this is acting like a compliment to ZHLWTHS.

You probably mean complement. Some might call this an "objective"  
genitive dependent upon the verbal noun ZHLWTHS.

Carl W. Conrad
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