[B-Greek] Acts 26:16 hWN TE EIDES ME and hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI

+Fr Patrick B O'Grady fatherpatrick at fastmail.fm
Mon Oct 18 17:43:28 EDT 2010


genitive of possession to huPHRETHN and MARTURA, and direct object of
the verb EIDES and OFQHSOMAI, respectively.  There is a propensity for
such relative pronouns to be attracted into the genitive case...
The elliptical grammar is what is throwing you.
...a minister and witness of the things [which things] you both saw and
of the things [which things] I shall show to you.
I don't have my ref grammar at hand just now, but look up attraction in
genitive case situations for relative pronouns.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:13:52 -0500, "Marilyn Phemister"
<windmill65 at yahoo.com> said:
>    Esteemed Scholars,
> 
> I'm having difficulty understanding the two four-word phrases beginning 
> with hWN in Acts 26:16:
> 
> 
> εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ὤφθην σοι, προχειρίσασθαι σε ὑπηρέτην καὶ μάρτυρα ὧν τε 
> εἶδες [με] ὧν τε ὀφθήσομαι σοι,
> 
> EIS TOUTO GAR WFQHN SOI, PROXEIRISASQAI SE hUPHRETHN KAI MARTURA hWN TE 
> EIDES ME hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI
> 
> 
> I don't understand the use of hWN with ME in the first one and hWN with 
> OFQHSOMAI  in the second one.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Marilyn Phemister
> 
> 
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