[B-Greek] 2 corinthians 2:4
George F Somsel
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Sat Oct 18 18:19:59 EDT 2008
That wasn't Moulton & Milligan. It was Moulton, Howard and Turner _A Grammar of New Testament Greek_. There were some other examples of the same phenomenon in the passage I cited INCLUDING 2 Cor 12.7. It seems to be a pattern frequently followed by Paul.
george
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From: timothy mcmahon <targum at msn.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:45:31 PM
Subject: RE: 2 corinthians 2:4
George:
Thanks so much for the treatment from M&M.
I'm really looking, though, more specifically at the raising of the object from its own dependent clause into the main clause of the sentence. M&M's example of Galatians 2:10 fits this precisely; the others don't. Is there a name for this specific phenomenon? The reason I;'m asking is not just general grammatical curiosity (although the verse has always piqued my interest) but because I'm wondering if the same dynamic is at play in 2 Corinthians 12:7:
EDOQH MOI SKOLOY TH SARKI AGGELOS SATANA INA ME KOLAFIZH
to the effect this could be translated, "A thorn in the flesh was given me so that Satan's messenger could torment me" rather than taking AGGELOS SATANA in apposition to SKOLOY. I would then interpret the thorn to be Paul's physical condition, which would serve as the catalyst or occasion for Satan's messengers (taking AGGELOS as collective) to torment Paul more effectively.
tim
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