[B-Greek] 2Cor. 11:5 LOGIZOMAI w/inf w/o acc

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 16 22:51:10 EST 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> This may not be enough to satisfy you in terms of your linguistic  
> framework,
> but (a) I'm not convinced that writers/speakers are perfectly  
> consistent in
> usage in all their writing/speaking, and (b) perhaps more to the  
> point, there's
> a heavy emphasis on the first person in Phil 3:13; I think that the  
> EGW and
> EMAUTON make an emphatic point about Paul's personal sense of where
> he is in contradistinction from where others may suppose they stand.

Thank you Carl,

The answer certainly doesn't need to be stated in terms of any  
particular framework. At this point I don't have the foggiest idea  
what I am looking for, just suspect that the difference in Paul's  
attitude toward his addressees might have something to do with it. My  
first impression of 2Cor. 11:5 was that it was kind of cryptic but  
that is to judge the Greek by English standards which is always a  
mistake. I guess one question which might be worth asking is what is  
the unmarked (i.e. normal) level of person encoding in a construction  
like this? Or to put it in other words, does EGW and EMAUTON attract  
our attention because the are not required? Or on the other hand does  
that lack of EMAUTON in 2Cor. 11:5 catch our attention because we  
would expect it?



Elizabeth Kline







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