[B-Greek] Philippians 1:3-4 - POIOUMENOS

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 1 14:15:14 EDT 2009


On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Bryan Cox wrote:

> EUCARISTW.....META CARAS DEHSIN POIOUMENOS
>
> In Sumney's Philippians: A Greek Student's Intermediate Reader, he  
> states
> that "POIOUMENOS ... is dependent on the initial verb of the sentence,
> EUCARISTW, and so retains Paul as its subject."  This surprised me.   
> He
> identifies it as a "circumstantial participle of attendant  
> circumstances".
>
> Another view he mentions is that of BDAG which "lists this passage  
> as an
> example of the middle form of this verb being used with its direct  
> object,
> the noun DEHSIN ..., as a 'periphrastic construction'."
>
> The latter, BDAG's view, seems more natural to me.  Why would one  
> stretch
> all the way back to EUCARISTW in this case?  How do others on the  
> list view
> this?

Phil. 1:3 Εὐχαριστῶ τῷ θεῷ μου ἐπὶ πάσῃ  
τῇ μνείᾳ ὑμῶν  4 πάντοτε ἐν πάσῃ  
δεήσει μου ὑπὲρ πάντων ὑμῶν, μετὰ  
χαρᾶς τὴν δέησιν ποιούμενος,  5 ἐπὶ  
τῇ κοινωνίᾳ ὑμῶν εἰς τὸ  
εὐαγγέλιον ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας  
ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν,
.
PHIL. 1:3 EUCARISTW TWi QEWi MOU EPI PASHi THi MNEIAi hUMWN 4 PANTOTE  
EN PASHi DEHSEI MOU hUPER PANTWN hUMWN, META CARAS THN DEHSIN  
POIOUMENOS, 5 EPI THi KOINWNIAi hUMWN EIS TO EUAGGELION APO THS PRWTHS  
hHMERAS ACRI TOU NUN,
.
G.Fee[1] (Phil. NICNT) has a good discussion of this. While one could  
view  PANTOTE ... POIOUMENOS as a circumstantial constituent with  
EUCARISTW, another option is to view PANTOTE ... POIOUMENOS as a  
second idea, "giving thanks" and "making my prayers" (G.Fee, H.A.A.  
Kennedy). The participle POIOUMENOS would function like finite verb.

.
Elizabeth Kline
.
[1] googel search: fee "thanksgiving is often broken into two parts"





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