[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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