[B-Greek] hH PERITOMH subject Phil. 3:3?
Carlton Winbery
winberycl at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 3 18:23:34 EST 2009
>On Mar 1, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>
>> Phil. 3:2 ÉÝɤ¼ÉÉ-É É-ÉÕ?V É»ýÉÀÉøV, ɿɤ¼ÉÉ-É
>> É-ÉÕ?V
>> ɻɸɻÉÕ?V ?ɦɡ¿É-ÉøV, ɿɤ¼ÉÉ-É É-?ÉÀ
>> ɻɸÉ-ÉøÉ-ÉÕÉ ÐÉÀ. 3 ?É É?V É¡¿É¦ ?É-É ÉÉÀ ?
>> ¼ÉɦɫÉ-ÉÕÉ Ð, ÉÕ? ¼ÉÀÉýÉ ÉøÉ-É« ÉÉÉÕ?
>> ÉÉøÉ-ɦÉýÉÕÉÀÉ-ÉV ɻɸ? ɻɸÉ"É'ÒÉ ÉÉÀÉÕÉ« ?ÉÀ
>> ɥɦɫÉ-É-?
>> ?ÉÉ-ÉÕ? ɻɸ? ÉÕ?É» ?ÉÀ É-ɸɦɻ? ¼É¼ÉÕÉ«ÉÞÉ-ÉV
> >>> BLEPETE TOUS KUNAS, BLEPETE TOUS KAKOUS ERGATAS, BLEPETE THN
> > KATATOMHN. 3 hHMEIS GAR ESMEN hH PERITOMH, hOI PNEUMATI QEOU
>> LATREUONTES KAI KAUCWMENOI EN CRISTWi IHSOU KAI OUK EN SARKI
>> PEPOIQOTES<<,
>>
>>
>>
>> N.T. Wright, in his book on Justification (2009) claims that hH
>> PERITOMH is the subject because it has the article. I wonder what both
>> traditional grammar and also text linguistics would have to say about
>> this.
>
>
>Speaking only for traditional grammar, I would question why the verb
>is 1 pl. if the subject is hH PERITOMH. For that matter, I'd also ask
>why we have the emphatic pronoun hHMEIS at the front and why all the
>apparently appositional substantival nominative plural participles.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
I agree the subject must be hHMEIS. Boy, Did Paul get the statement
in v. 2 from his course on "How to win friends and influence people?"
Especially THN KATATOMHN?
--
Carlton L. Winbery
Retired Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
318-448-6103
winberycl at earthlink.net
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