[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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