[B-Greek] Matthew 1:20
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 28 17:37:55 EST 2010
hAGION cannot modify GENNHQEN because of the intervening preposition. While
discontinuous phrases are allow in Greek, there are strict limits on the form
they take. In the case of prepositional phrases, you are only going to find two
patterns:
Preposition -> Adjective -> X -> Noun
Preposition -> Noun -> X -> Adjective
Discontinuous constituency like this arises with the author/speaker viewed the
first part of the discontinuity as particularly important or relevant to the
message.
The only occasions where a word that is functionally in a prepositional phrase
can appear before the preposition are in Poetry, though even then, I can only
say that for Classical poetry. I haven't looked at Hellenistic poetry. Also, in
Homeric Greek, there is significantly more freedom in the placement of
prepositions, but such phenomena are not relevant to what we're seeing here.
If you're willing to push through some rather technical discussion, I've done
some writing on the subject of discontinuous phrases in Greek, specifically
looking at the Hellenistic period:
http://evepheso.wordpress.com/studies-in-greek-syntax/
Mike Aubrey
http://evepheso.wordpress.com
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From: Dony K. Donev <dony at cupandcross.com>
To: Biblical Greek' <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, November 28, 2010 2:18:49 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Matthew 1:20
Does hAGION refer to the Spirit OR the begotten, since both are neuter singular?
If it refers to the Spirit, please explain why and are there other example by
Matthew
where hAGION and pneumatos are separated by a verb (ex. estin). Thanks.
Dony K. Donev
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