[B-Greek] subject of participles in Mt 11:1b - disciples?
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 20:20:42 EDT 2008
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:
>
>> 11a KAI EGENETO hOTE ETELESEN hO IHSOUS
>> DIATASSWN TOIS DWDEKA MAQHTAIS AUTOU
>> 11b METEBH EKEIQEN TOU
>> DIDASKEIN KAI KHRUSSEIN EN TAIS POLESIN AUTWN
>>
>>
>> Being connected with KAI, 11:1 is continuous with 10:42; whereas a new
>> narrative begins at 11:2 (with DE).
>>
>> Thus I like to see the participles διδασκειν and κηρυσσειν of 11:1b
>> seem taking on DIATASSWN in 11:1a as well as APESTEILEN in 10:5. Hence
>> teaching and proclaiming are the activities for the disciples to carry
>> on upon their mission after the lengthy instruction of the whole
>> chapter 10.
>>
>> Superficially their subject is Jesus. The flow of text from beginning
>> of Ch. 10 tells me to go for the disciples as the subject.
>> Grammatically I do not find a help to decide. Is there anything to
>> prove me I may be in a wrong track?
>
> DIDASKEIN and KHRUSSEIN are not participles; they are infinitives construed
> with the genitive article TOU in an infinitive-of-purpose construction;
> that's why you won't find any subject for them. 11:1 is really the
> conclusion to the missionary discourse of chapter 10: 11:1a is a formula
> comparable to what we see elsewhere marking the end of a major discourse by
> Jesus (cf. Mt 7:28, end of the Sermon on the Mount, 13:53, end of the
> Parable discourse, 19:1, end of the discourse on church discipline, 26:1,
> end of the eschatological discourse). 11:1b marks Jesus' move toward public
> teaching and proclamation: "he went away from there in order to teach and
> preach in their cities."
>
> I don't really see any relationship between these infinitives and the
> preceding "instruction" or "directions for mission" (that's what DIATASSWN
> means) of the disciples/apostles. 11:2 begins the John the Baptist pericope;
> 11:1 brings the "missionary" discourse to an end, noting that Jesus moved on
> to a different task.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>
Thanks, Carl.
Yes, I can see in a book as VNPAG (with N standing for 'iNfinitive
and P for present; when P comes first, it would be Participle). What
confused me was another file (in E-Sword) which put in a different
sequence as VPN.
I wish there were a standard way of expressing the parsing.
Oun.
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