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Acts 8:34 - final τινός
Posted: July 12th, 2015, 9:00 am
by Jonathan Robie
Acts 8:34 wrote:περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
Why is that last τινός there? What is the difference between:
περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
and
περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου;
Re: Acts 8:34 - final τινός
Posted: July 12th, 2015, 12:44 pm
by cwconrad
Jonathan Robie wrote:Acts 8:34 wrote:περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
Why is that last τινός there? What is the difference between:
περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου τινός;
and
περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἢ περὶ ἑτέρου;
As I see it, it's the difference between "another" and "somebody else" -- not so much a semantic distinction as a matter of emphasis in ἑτέρου τινός on the particularity of the other person, between "anyone else" and "someone else."
Re: Acts 8:34 - final τινός
Posted: July 12th, 2015, 1:55 pm
by Jonathan Robie
Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
Re: Acts 8:34 - final τινός
Posted: July 12th, 2015, 10:30 pm
by Stephen Carlson
Jonathan Robie wrote:Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
The first one is actually τίνος, not τινός (note the accent).