[B-Greek] Strange Construction in Philo De specialibus legibus 1:345

Brian Abasciano bvabasciano at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 17:53:54 EDT 2010


Quick correction: Pleae note that those were not my comments, but those of 
the person who asked me the question. I basically copied his question and 
words to the list. I answered him myself (noting, for example, something 
similar to what you did about ONTI and QEWi), which I did not share with the 
list, but wanted to hear what comments list members would make.

Brian Abasciano

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Penner" <kpenner at stfx.ca>
To: "Brian Abasciano" <bvabasciano at gmail.com>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:43 PM
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Strange Construction in Philo De specialibus legibus 
1:345


> Although Carl understood what Philo was saying, I didn't notice him or the 
> other responders making the following corrections explicitly (I might 
> simply have missed it).
>
> Brian, you said: 'Then we have another article in the accusative, which I 
> would assume would be tied to clause TACIN AQANATON BION ZWSIN - "an 
> ordered (or "arranged") immortal life." (I would assume Philo would use a 
> more Greek phrasiology here.)'
>
> Note that the accusative TACIN restricts/modifies TETAGMENOI and the 
> accusative AQANATON BION restricts/modifies ZWSIN.
>
> You then wrote: 'We also have the dative prepositional phrase PARA TWi 
> ONTI QEWi ("being alongside the God") ...'
>
> Note that ONTI modifies QEWi. What kind of God? "The existing (i.e., real) 
> God", if you will.
>
>
> Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
> St. Francis Xavier University
> Antigonish, NS Canada
> kpenner at stfx.ca
>
>
>
> 




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