[B-Greek] Phil 2:6 Concessive or causal participle

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Oct 20 07:53:29 EDT 2008


On Oct 20, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Norman Wood wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Phil 2:6 has
> "hOS EN MORFH QEOU hUPARCWN OUC hARPAGMON hHGHSATO TO EINAI ISA QEOU"
>
> Wallace describes this occurence of hUPARCWN as concessive p634Greek  
> Grammar Beyond the Basics.
> However O'Brien (NIGTC)p 214 argues that this ought not to be  
> rendered as concessive, but as causal. Could someone offer  
> suggestions on how to approach this problem?

I am inclined to think that whether or not you call the clause  
"concessive" or "temporal" or "causal" or whatever has more to do with  
how you want to English it or put it into another language -- but that  
depends on how you interpret it -- my point being that such a  
subcategorization of the participial phrase, so long as there's no  
"deictic" feature like a KAIPER or KAIGE, is something that each  
reader will determine to his or her own satisfaction from a judgment  
about the sense of the whole.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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