[B-Greek] Conjoined Participles
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 30 06:15:34 EST 2004
At 7:24 PM -0800 3/29/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>Parsons/Culy indicate that "conjoined participles must
>share the same function." What is the logic behind
>this?
>
>For example, Acts 16,18 begins TOUTO DE EPOIEI EPI
>POLLAS hHMERAS. DIAPONHQEIS DE PAULOS KAI EPISTREYAS
>TWi PNEUMATI EIPEN....
>
>Since EPISTREYAS is not causal, DIAPONHQEIS cannot be
>causal (which at first seems likely), since conjoined
>participles must function the same way semantically.
I don't think anything more is meant by this than that the two
circumstantial participles indicate successively Paul's reaction to the
continued behavior of the slave-girl; the sequential participles and main
verb indicate three successive steps: "so Paul was upset and turned to the
spirit and said ..."
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Carl W. Conrad
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