[B-Greek] philip 3:12b 3rd class conditional?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 23 12:58:15 EST 2004


At 7:46 AM -0800 3/23/04, john umland wrote:
>DIWKW DE EI KAI KATALABW EF hW KAI KATELHMFQHN hUPO
>CRISTOU
>
>i read that this is a third class conditional although
>it is not EAN + subjunctive but EI + subj. Can
>KATELHMFQHN be taken as the protasis and KATALABW as
>the apodosis? Robertson and Bruce call this a purpose
>clause. How so?

Where did you read that? I don't think that DIWKW is the apodosis of a
conditional construction but rather than the EI + subjunctive clause here
is an indirect question--and that is what we find in BDAG s.v. EI 5.b.beta:

"w. subj. DIWKW EI KAI KATALABW I press on (to see) whether I can capture
Phil 3:12 (B-D-F §368; 375; Rob. 1017)."
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Carl W. Conrad
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