[B-Greek] Luke 23:40, 48- participles
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 31 19:52:11 EST 2004
At 6:16 PM -0300 3/31/04, John Colby wrote:
> Luke 23:40 reads:
> APOKRIQEIS DE hO hETEROS EPITIMWN AUTWi EFH...
Here APOKRIQEIS is an almost formulaic "in reply" but could be conveyed
"the other replied and said, rebuking him, " ..."
> 23:48:
> KAI PANTES hOI SUMPARAGENOMENOI OCLOI EPI THN QEWRIAN TAUTHN,
>QEWRHSANTES TA GENOMENA, TUPTONTES TA STHQH hUPESTREFON.
Your first aorist participle here is attributive--within the article-noun
subject phrase; QEWRHSANTES indicates temporal priority to the action of
the main verb while TUPTONTES indicates action accompanying that of the
main verb: "And all the throngs that had gathered together at this
spectacle, after they had seen what happened, began to go back as they beat
their breasts" -- or you could do it thus: "And all the throngs that had
gathered to see this thing, once they had seen what happened, began to beat
their breasts and go backward." That is the present participle and
imperfect verb really indicate concurrent actions.
> How should I understand and translate these conglomerations of
>participles? The present and aorist participles' relation to one another
>is difficult enough, but then Luke throws in an imperfect in both verses,
>which confuses me.
>
> Jonathan Colby
> Guyana, South America
>
>
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