[B-Greek] Didache 4:10
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Feb 9 13:01:05 EST 2008
On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Hugh Donohoe Jr. wrote:
> Bert,
>
> ELPIZOUSIN is a present participle, dative plural.
> TOIS makes the participle like a substantive.
To be still more precise, the article with a participle makes it
adjectival to qualify any substantive, but as an adjective may become
substantival with the additional of a participle, so the entire
phrase, in this instance TOIS EPI TON AUTON QEON ELPIZOUSIN, becomes a
substantive in agreement with and in apposition to the substantive(s)
with which it agrees, in this instance DOULWi and PAIDISKHi.
> Bert de Haan
> OUK EPITACEIS DOULWi SOU H PAIDISKHi (TOIS EPI TON
> AUTON QEON
> ELPIZOUSIN) EN PIKRIAi SOU, MHPOTE OU MH FOBHQHSONTAI
> TON EP'
> AMFOTEROIS QEON.
>
> You shall not order your slave or maid (the ones who
> hope in the same
> God) with harshness [in your anger maybe?] lest they
> will no longer
> fear the God who is over you both.
>
> My question is about the section in parenthesis. I had
> to check a
> translation before I knew what was meant. I assume
> that TOIS is
> dative because it refers back to DOULWi and PAIDISKHi.
> The way it is
> translated here TOIS is the subject of ELPIZOUSIN. Is
> this a "normal
> abnormality" or is the translation wrong?
> Thanks.
> Bert de Haan.
>
>
>
>
>
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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