[B-Greek] GEGENOEN

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Sat Mar 20 15:14:02 EST 2004


In a message dated 3/20/2004 12:53:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
edmishoe at yahoo.com writes:
In Acts 5,4, TI hOTI appears to be short for TI GEGENOEN hOTI 
translated as "Why has it happened that"

How would you parse GEGENOEN?
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I don't know how one would parse GEGENOEN, but, if you mean GEGONEN (most 
likely), that is the perfect 3 s of GINOMAI.  I would not, however, supply 
GEGONEN here.  ESTI is a more likely candidate in my mind.  It would then read

TI [ESTI] hOTI EQOU EN THi KARDIAi SOU TO PRAGMA TOUTO . . .

Extremely literally:  "What is it that put this deed in your heart  . . ."

OR

"What made you decide  to do this . . . "

If you were to supply GEGONEN, it would be more like

"What happened that it put this deed in your heart . .."

gfsomsel



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