[B-Greek] Acts 13,48
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Fri Sep 24 10:00:35 EDT 2010
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
To: "Peter Streitenberger" <ps2866 at bingo-ev.de>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 24. september 2010 16:04
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Acts 13,48
> 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?
A relative clause modifies a head like an adjective modifies a head. This head
may be a noun, pronoun or demonstrative. hOSOI is a masculine correlative
pronoun and does not modify TA EQNH nor is it in apposition. Rather the "missing
head" is an implied word like PANTES, i.e. all who were appointed for eternal
life believed.
It is still likely that TA EQNH refers to the same group of believers as hOSOI,
since the description of these particular group of EQNH is that they rejoiced
over and praised the word of the Lord.
Iver Larsen
Ps. I can see that Carl responded before this one was sent.
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