[B-Greek] Mt 9:27

D Jongkind dirk.jongkind at ntlworld.com
Wed Mar 3 15:55:44 EST 2004


Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> 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."

Is it really true that one would <never> expect a genitive absolute under
similar circumstances as in Mt 9:27?

Just a brief glance in Matthew yields at least four examples:

Mt 8:1 KATABANTOS DE AUTOU APO TOU OROUS HKOLOUQHSAN AUTWi OCLOI POLLOI

Mt 8:5 EISELQONTOS DE AUTOU EIS KAFARNAOUM PROSHLQEN AUTWi EKATONTARCOS

Mt 8:28 KAI ELQONTOS AUTOU EIS TO PERAN EIS THN CWRAN TWN GADARHNWN
UPHNTHSAN AUTWi DUO DAIMONIZOMENOI

Mt 9:18 TAUTA AUTOU LALOUNTOS AUTOIS, IDOU ARCWN EIS ELQWN PROSEKUNEI AUTWi

I happily agree that perhaps the 'better' form of the constuction is found
in 9:28, but the construction in 9:27, though perhaps not extraordinary, is
not a completely normal circumstantial participle construction either with
both TW IHSOU and a resumptive AUTWi:

Mt 9:27 KAI PARAGONTI EKEIQEN TW IHSOU HKOLOUQHSAN [AUTW] DUO  TUFLOI

By the way, Matthew does the same in 8:23, but then with two times AUTWi:

Mt 8:23 KAI EMBANTI AUTWi EIS TO PLOION HKOLOUQHSAN AUTWi OI MAQHTAI AUTOU

Regards,
Dirk Jongkind




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