[B-Greek] The relative pronouns in Ephesians 6:17 and Revelation 5:8
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Oct 14 08:20:18 EDT 2010
On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Leonard Jayawardena wrote:
>>
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>> ________________________________
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:54:35 +0800
>>> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The relative pronouns in Ephesians 6:17 and
>>> Revelation 5:8
>>> From: john.franklin.sanders at gmail.com
>>> To: leonardj at live.com
>>> CC: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>>>
>>>
>>> It appears to me that Leonard understands the simile in Revelation 5:8
>>> to be QUMIAMATWN construed with PROSEUCAI. If this is the case, then
>>> the relative pronoun is incorrectly used and needs to be explained;
>>> which Leonard has done.
>>
>> LJ: The relative pronoun is not incorrectly used. John knew the standard rules of Greek grammar, as can be demonstrated from the book, and the use of a feminine relative pronoun in this case is no more incorrect than the use of personal and relative pronouns in reference to referents of neuter nouns when they are persons.
>
> "John knew the standard rules of Greek grammar, as can be demonstrataed from the book ... "
>
> That the author of Revelation was had
I am sometimes myself guilty of solecisms in English, although I know better;
> a basic familiarity with Koine Greek usage I wouldn't dispute,
> but there is a widespread sense that he was not a native user of the language or had not been schooled
> in Greek grammar, inasmuch as we regularly speak of the peculiar "solecisms" of this book:
>
> BDF§136. "Revelation exhibits a quantity of striking solecisms which are based especially on inattention to agreement (a rough style), in contrast to the rest of the NT and to the other writings ascribed to John ... "
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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