[B-Greek] PAREICHETO
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 11:48:08 EST 2009
I think if Luke wanted to say that the shrines provided the business, the
verb would be a participle in the accusative agreeing with NAOUS, or
he would have started a new relative clause. Note that there are variant
readings which have the active PARECW, and add a hOS, which must
refer to Demetrius, since Artemis was a goddess, not a god!
Mark L
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] PAREICHETO
To: "Fridolin Janzen" <fjanzen at gmx.net>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 8:05 AM
On Feb 16, 2009, at 7:56 AM, Fridolin Janzen wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I have a question regarding the Word PAREICHETO in Acts 19:24: does
> it refer
> to Demetrius or to the shrines? Did Demetrius bring the gain or was
> it the
> making and selling of the shrines? I see that both views are
> represented in
> the various translations. Is this a subjective case or is there a
> parameter
> by which to determine it?
It always helps to have the Greek text in front of us:
Acts 19:24 Δημήτριος γάρ τις ὀνόματι,
ἀργυροκόπος, ποιῶν ναοὺς ἀργυροῦς
Ἀρτέμιδος παρείχετο τοῖς τεχνίταις
οὐκ ὀλίγην ἐργασίαν,
DHMHTRIOS GAR TIS ONOMATI, ARGUROPOIOS, POIWN NAOUS ARGUROUS ARTEMIDOS
PAREICETO TOIS TECNITAIS OUK OLIGHN ERGASIAN.
PAREICETO is middle voice, pretty clearly having the accusative direct
object OUK OLIGHN ERGASIAN and dative indirect object TOIS TECNITAIS.
See BDAG s.v. PARECW: 3.b.
" ... provided no little employment for his artisans by producing
silver shrines of Artemis."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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