[B-Greek] Mt 9:27
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 3 15:23:05 EST 2004
At 8:05 PM +0000 3/3/04, D Jongkind wrote:
>Matthew 9:27 KAI PARAGONTI EKEIQEN TW IHSOU HKOLOUQHSAN [AUTW] DUO TUFLOI
>>
>> Interpreting this as an "associative instrumental dative" we get:
>> "And *with* Jesus, passing on from there, followed two blind men."
>>
>> The AUTW is pleonastic.
>
>What I think is going on here is that the association of AKOLOUQEW with the
>dative is so strong that it prevents KAI PARAGONTI EKEIQEN TW IHSOU to be a
>genitive absolute (as happens in verse 18 of the same chapter), yet I think
>the whole construction should be treated like one.
>AUTWi is indeed pleonastic.
>The genitive absolute is used quite loosely in the NT.
As Arie noted previously, there's nothing extraordinary at all about this,
and a genitive absolute would never be expected under such circumstances
when the circumstantial participle can be construed with an essential
element in the clause, "And when he left from there, two blind men followed
Jesus."
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Carl W. Conrad
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