[B-Greek] Syntax of Col 1:22 - Dr. Conrad

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Aug 18 06:42:34 EDT 2009


On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:00 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Dr.Conrad
>
> You wrote:
>
> Acts 9:18 καὶ εὐθέως ἀπέπεσαν αὐτοῦ
> ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὡς λεπίδες,
> ἀνέβλεψέν τε καὶ ἀναστὰς
> ἐβαπτίσθη  [KAI EUQEWS APEPESAN AUTOU APO TWN OFQALMWN hWS
> LEPIDES, ANEBLEYEN TE KAI ANASTAS EBAPTISQH]
>
> Here it might be argued that AUTOU should be construed with OFQALMWN.
> To be sure the clause would be Englished as “There fell from his  
> eyes
> something like scalles   .. “ I think however that AUTOU here
> probably construes directly with APEPESAN rather than with OFQALMWN.
>
> How would you translate AUTOU with APEPESAN, assuming the singular  
> AUTOU construes with the plural APEPESAN?

I would English it as I noted above: "There fell from his eyes  
something like scales." But I would understand the construction of  
AUTOU as ablatival genitive "from him" construing with the adverbial  
prefix of APEPESAN. The verb appears to be used either directly with  
an ablatival genitive or with EK or APO and genitive indicating what a  
person or things falls 'from.'


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






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