[B-Greek] Elipsis of verb after MH in prohibititions 1COR. 4:6

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 9 18:49:08 EDT 2008


Elizabeth:

I found this post to be of interest, but wanted to make sure my yahoo account is working. Are you offering insight into someone's post or is this your post? I didn't see a question in the post; it looked more like an answer to a previous question (but I don't have the previous question in my In Box).

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Elipsis of verb after MH in prohibititions 1COR. 4:6
> To: "greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 2:50 PM
> 1COR. 4:6 TAUTA DE, ADELFOI, METESCHMATISA EIS EMAUTON KAI
> APOLLWN DI  
> hUMAS, hINA EN hHMIN MAQHTE TO MH hUPER hA GEGRAPTAI, hINA
> MH hEIS  
> hUPER TOU hENOS FUSIOUSQE KATA TOU hETEROU.
> 
> There are a number of problems in this verse, however the
> syntax of TO  
> MH hUPER hA GEGRAPTAI is not, in itself,  a cause for
> dismay, as some  
> 20th century NT scholars have suggested. It is notable that
> the  
> Plummer (1Cor ICC), Alford and Meyer see nothing terribly
> difficult  
> about this syntax. Negatives in prohibitions without a main
> verb are  
> found in Classical dialogue (Meyer P.92, Alford p. 500).
> Often the  
> verbal idea is readily supplied from the immediate context
> but not  
> always. Cooper (Attic Syntax 1:67.41.0) "Fairly often
> ... an ellipse  
> with a negative is not that of a specific idea from the
> context but a  
> more general verbal idea of being, doing, saying."
> 
> It is not perfectly obvious if the verbal idea for TO MH
> hUPER hA  
> GEGRAPTAI should be supplied from the immediate context.
> The idea of  
> "exceeding what is written" either in thought,
> speech or action seems  
> suitable to the context but other suggestions have been put
> forward.
> 
> The real crux is the referent and/or semantic content of hA
> GEGRAPTAI,  
> about which much has been written.
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Kline
> 
> 
> 
> 
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