At 10:41 AM -0600 10/28/98, Michael Holmes wrote: >At 11:15 AM 10/28/98 EST, Paul Dixon wrote: >> >>In 1 Thess 2:15 should ENANTIWN be taken as a participle >>in parallel with the preceding participles APOKTEINANTWN >>... EDKIWXANTWN ... ARESKONTWN? >> >>Or, should it be taken simply as an adjective (as BAG >>has it listed under the adjective ENANTIOS, A, ON rather >>than the verb ENANTIOOMAI). > >With apologies for what Oscar Cullmann termed the "vice of auto-citation," >perhaps I could pass along part of a footnote from my recent commentary on >the Thessalonian letters, as a partial answer to Paul's query; the second >paragraph below is most directly relevant to his questions: > > Regarding the four participles in 2:15-16a, > >"The translations vary considerably in their treatment of these participles >and the repeated KAI's in 2:15ö16a: "the ones KAi having killed the Lord >Jesus KAI the prophets KAI having driven us out KAI not pleasing God KAI, >hostile to all people, hindering us ..." In 2:15a, the NRSV ("who killed >both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, ...") treats the first KAI as if it >came after "having killed" rather than before, while the NIV ("who killed >the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out ...") ignores the >first and translates the third as if it were a longer phrase. Preferable is >either (1) "who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us >out ..." (NASB), which links closely the verbs "killed" and "drove out," or >(2) "who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out ...," >which picks up the list-like character of the string of accusations. > >"In 2:15bö16a there are competing structural patterns: while the first three >clauses of vv. 15ö16 are composed of a noun or pronoun phrase followed by a >participle, in the fourth clause the noun phrase is followed by an adjective >("hostile") and then a participle ("hindering"). Both the NIV ("They ... >are hostile to all men in their effort to keep us ...") and NRSV ("they ... >oppose everyone by hindering us ...") emphasize the adjective, as it >immediately follows the noun clause; they treat the adjective as if it were >a participle parallel to the first three, and subordinate the following >participle to it. Alternatively, one may emphasize the obvious parallelism >of the four participles, as does the NASB ("not pleasing to God, but hostile >to all men, hindering us ..."). But the NASB treats the linking conjunction >KAI as though it were a contrasting one ("but," DE or ALLA); instead >translate "they are not pleasing to God and, hostile to humanity, are >hindering us ..." (cf. E. J. Richard, Thessalonians, 121ö122). The problem with this is that ENANTI/WN in 1 Thess 2:15 cannot be a participle--UNLESS it is a nominative sg. active of ENANTIOW; a participle gen. pl. of ENANTIOOMAI would be ENANTIOUMENWN. That having been said, there's nothing to prevent understanding ENANT/WN here as the genitive plural of the adjective ENANTIOS/A/ON with an implicit ONTWN that would yield the equivalent of a participle of ENANTIOOMAI. Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics/Washington University One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/ --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu