[B-Greek] APO marking agent with passive

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 18 19:02:49 EDT 2008


I seem to recall posting on this topic before. Reading Soph OC 1626-28

1626 KALEI GAR AUTON POLLA POLLACHi QEOS:
1627 W hOUTOS hOUTOS, OIDIPOUS, TI MELLOMEN
1628 CWREIN PALAI DH T'APO SOU BRADUNETAI.

It looks like in PALAI DH T'APO SOU BRADUNETAI, APO is used to mark  
the agent of BRADUNETAI. I could be  wrong. I went looking in Danker  
(BDAG) under APO (page 107.5.e.beta) where he cites several examples  
including:

ACTS 2:22 ANDRES ISRAHLITAI, AKOUSATE TOUS LOGOUS TOUTOUS: IHSOUN TON  
NAZWRAION, ANDRA APODEDEIGMENON APO TOU QEOU EIS hUMAS DUNAMESI KAI  
TERASI KAI SHMEIOIS hOIS EPOIHSEN DI AUTOU hO QEOS EN MESWi hUMWN  
KAQWS AUTOI OIDATE,

ACTS 4:36 IWSHF DE hO EPIKLHQEIS BARNABAS APO TWN APOSTOLWN, hO ESTIN  
MEQERMHNEUOMENON hUIOS PARAKLHSEWS, LEUITHS, KUPRIOS TWi GENEI,

Where APODEDEIGMENON APO TOU QEOU and hO EPIKLHQEIS ... APO TWN  
APOSTOLWN appear to show APO functioning like UPO as a marker of  
agency. In one or more of Danker's examples there are APO/UPO variant  
readings -- open to several explanations.

Elizabeth Kline







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