[B-Greek] 2 Peter 3:12

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Feb 12 07:42:20 EST 2011


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From: "timothy mcmahon" <targum at msn.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] 2 Peter 3:12


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> 2 Peter 3:12 - PROSDOKWNTAS KAI SPEUDONTAS THN PAROUSIAN THS TOU QEOU 
> hHMERASIs it possible to take the participles as a sort of hendiadys and 
> PAROUSIAN as an accusative of respect and understand the sense to the 
> effect of "with eager anticipation working diligently as regards the 
> coming of the day of God" or such?

Why?  The accusative of respect or adverbial accusative is a category 
applied when there is no other good explanation for the accusative in a 
particular context.  Here you have 2 perfectly good active participles both 
of which are capable of taking a direct object in the accusative.  As for a 
hendiadys, that's normally two nouns in the same case, one essentially 
modifying the other to form one concept.  Occam's razor surely cuts straight 
here -- why create improbable explanations for the text when normal usage 
does so nicely?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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