[B-Greek] TA PANTA in Ephesians 4:15

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Mar 19 12:10:43 EDT 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Inman" <eric.inman at wescorpflex.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; <iver_larsen at sil.org>
Sent: 19. marts 2008 16:55
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TA PANTA in Ephesians 4:15


> Iver or others,
>
> This might be far-fetched, but was there any coevolution of TA PANTA or
> other accusatives from direct object to circumstantial accusative in
> conjunction with the evolution of verbs such as AUXANW/OMAI away from
> causative usages?
>
> Eric Inman

I cannot imagine that, because both the MP form and the active form that supplanted it are 
intransitive, so they cannot take an object. What is the subject in the MP or active intransitive 
forms "B grows" becomes the object in the causative active form "A caused B to grow/increase".
Of course you could grammatically say "A caused TA PANTA to grow" (HUXHSEN TA PANTA), but that bears 
no relationship to the verse under scrutiny. 1 Cor 3:6 has ALLA hO QEOS HUXHSEN (TO SPERMA/TON 
LOGON)

Iver Larsen 




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