[B-Greek] Ecclesiastes 3:11

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 2 13:23:04 EDT 2007


On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:

> Martin Shields has indicated that he (and myself included) could  
> not find any
> where in Greek where the double negative OU MH is used with a  
> relative in
> between

Josephus “AJ”, 18.225
  Ῥωμαίοις δ’ ἦν μὲν πύστις τῆς  
Τιβερίου 2 τελευτῆς εὐφραίνοντό τε  
τῷ ἀγαθῷ τῆς ἀγγελίας, οὐ μὴν  
πιστεύειν 3 γε θάρσος ἦν αὐτοῖς, οὐ  
τῷ μὴ βούλεσθαι, πρὸ πολλῶν γὰρ ἂν   
4 ἐτίμησαν χρημάτων τὸ ἐπαληθεῦσαν  
τῶν λόγων, δέει δὲ μὴ ψευδοῦς τῆς  
ἀγγελίας γενομένης  
προεξαναστάντες ἐπὶ δηλώσει τοῦ  
αὐτῶν χάρματος εἶτ’ ἀπολλύοιντο  
διαβολῆς αὐτῶν γενομένης·

hRWMAIOIS D' HN MEN PUSTIS THS TIBERIOU 2 TELEUTHS EUFRAINONTO TE TWi  
AGAQWi THS AGGELIAS, OU MHN PISTEUEIN 3 GE QARSOS HN AUTOIS, OU TWi  
MH BOULESQAI, PRO POLLWN GAR AN  4 ETIMHSAN CRHMATWN TO EPALHQEUSAN  
TWN LOGWN, DEEI DE MH YEUDOUS THS AGGELIAS GENOMENHS PROEXANASTANTES  
EPI DHLWSEI TOU AUTWN CARMATOS EIT' APOLLUOINTO DIABOLHS AUTWN  
GENOMENHS:

It depends on how you read OU TWi MH BOULESQAI, OU ... MH probably  
isn't functioning here as a double negative but TWi (article) at  
first glance looks like it belongs with BOULESQAI but perhaps OU TWi  
and MH BOULESQAI are independent constituents.


Elizabeth Kline







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