[B-Greek] Acts 1,13A
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Mar 20 09:38:05 EST 2004
At 6:25 PM -0800 3/19/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>KAI hOTE EISHLQON, EIS TO hUPERWiON ANEBHSAN hOU HSAN KATAMENONTES,
>
>It appears that the pronoun hOU does not have an antecedent, and functions
>adverbially here. Can a relative pronoun have as its antecedent a
>prepositional phrase (here EIS TO hUPERWiON)? I know that demonstrative
>pronouns have "conceptual" antecedents.
hOU in this instance is the relative ADVERB, identical in form with the
genitive sg. m/n relative pronoun but to be distinguished from it; it is
correlative with POU and hOPOU; in this instance TO hUPERWiON is the
antecedent of hOU: "they went above to the upper chamber where they were
staying ..."
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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