[B-Greek] Luke 5:7a: "TOU ELQONTAS"

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 05:14:31 EDT 2009


Andrew --
I'm hazarding a guess here since Greek word order is not always the way it
would be in English. Probably the TOU does not go with the ELQONTAS but with
the infinitive of purpose, TOU ... SULLABESAI. The accusative
participle, ELQONTAS , seems to be acting more like a direct object to the
main verb (KATENEUSAN), but others on the list can be more explicit as to
the function it is performing.

Sarah ><>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:48 AM, ajb1212 at ono.com <ajb1212 at ono.com> wrote:

> "KAI KATENEUSAN TOIS METOCOIS EN TWi hETERWi PLOIWi TOU ELQONTAS
> SULLABESQAI AUTOIS" (Luke 5:7a).
>
> I take it that "TOU ELQONTAS" is purpose or a sort of indirect
> imperative. Is that correct? Why the accusative after "TOU"? Can
> someone point me to other GNT examples of this?
>
> Thankyou,
>
> Andrew J. Birch
> Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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