[B-Greek] Acts 13,48
Peter Streitenberger
ps2866 at bingo-ev.de
Fri Sep 24 09:24:10 EDT 2010
Dear Mark,
good to hear form you again - thank you for your answer !
>What does "a headless relative clause" mean?
I think it means that the relative pronoun introducing the relative clause has no antecedent in the main clause but stands for its own. And that's my point: I guess TA EQNH is the referent of hOSOI. The beliving Gentiles are further specified in the relative clause as predestined to eternal live (TETAGMENOI if not medium, then maybe a passivum divinum).
Yours
Peter, Germany
Peter asked
<in Acts 13,48 we read: AKOUONTA DE TA EQNH ECAIREN, KAI EDOXAZON TON LOGON TOU
KURIOU, KAI EPISTEUSAN hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION.
Parsons/Culy (Acts, A Handbook on the Greek Text) write (p.269): "hOSOI. The
relative pronoun introduces a headless relative clause [...] that serves as the
subject of EPISTEUSAN"
I ask myself whether this is the best way to understand this relative clause.
Isn't it possible to regard "hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION" as
attributive to "TA EQNH"? The relative clause introduced by hOSOI would then be
a further description of TA EQNH and no new subject is necessary. The head of
the relative clause would be TA EQNH.>
Hi, Peter,
I think OSOI k.t.l. refers to a subset of the Gentiles who not only rejoiced and
glorified the word but believed in it. But it is possible that Luke meant to
say that all the Gentiles in question believed, in which case OSOI k.t.l. would
be in apposition to TA EQNH, at least according to the sense.
What does "a headless relative clause" mean?
FWSFOROS MARKOS
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