At 5:35 PM -0600 10/28/98, Michael Holmes wrote: At 04:32 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Carl Conrad responded to my note: >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. > Sorry, but I do not take ENANTI/WN in 1 Th 2.15 as a participle, I read it as an adjective. My apologies for not re-writing the note a bit more expansively for re-use in response to Paul Dixon's query. Permit me to re-post the note with an expanded first line or two and see if that makes more sense for Carl and others. Thank you, Michael, and my apologies for the misunderstanding. Upon carefully re-reading your original response, I see that it clearly indicates you didn't consider ENANTIWN as a participle. I admit that, at first glance, the citation from the commentary didn't seem to respond directly to Paul's question, but it did, in fact, get to the heart, I think, of his concerns, as I now realize. I was looking for something less subtle--more blunt--in response to Paul's question whether ENANTIWN should be taken as a participle or an adjective. I am a morning person; sometimes I think it would be best if I avoided any activity involving serious thought after 2 p.m. At any rate, to cite Euripides, hAI DEUTERAI PWS FRONTIDES SOFWTERAI. 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