[B-Greek] Acts 26:16 hWN TE EIDES ME and hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI
Leonard Jayawardena
leonardj at live.com
Thu Oct 21 07:44:40 EDT 2010
In his "Word Pictures," Robertson has the following comment on hWN TE EIDES ME:
"The reading [ME] (not in all MSS.) makes it the object of [EIDES] (didst see) and [hWN] is genitive of [hA] (accusative of general reference) attacted to the case of the unexpressed antecedent [TOUTWN]."
If I understand Robertson correctly, hWN TE EIDES ME represents in full TOUTWN hA TE EIDES ME, which when substituted in the verse we have "(to appoint you a minister and a witness) of these things with respect to which (or wherein) you have seen me." But TOUTWN is unexpressed and the relative pronoun gets attracted to the unexpressed TOUTWN, resulting in hWN.
His comment on hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI is "Here again [hWN] is genitive of the accusative (general reference) relative [hA] attracted to the case of the antecedent [TOUTWN] or [EKEINWN] as before."
That is, hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI is in full TOUTWN (or EKEINWN) hA TE OFQHSOMAI SOI, which becomes hWN TE OFQHSOMAI SOI in the same way as before.
I would like to know (a) whether I have understood Robertson correctly; and (b) if so, the comments of others on the above.
Leonard Jayawardena
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