[B-Greek] Ephesians 1:22
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 8 17:28:43 EST 2010
> Could not the
recipient be AUTON as was already shared?
No, Accusatives
mark that which is given. They never mark the recipient. Datives mark
who receives what is given.
>The
constitution would equal QEOS; the armed forces would equal PANTA; the
> president
would
equal AUTOU (Christ); makes would equal EDWKEN; the
> commander
in chief
would equal AUTON (KEFALHN hUPER PANTA ), and the
> joint chiefs of
staff would equal THi EKKLHSIAi.
> This scenario,
obviously, takes EDWKEN more in the sense of
“appoint.”
Indeed, and the sense "to appoint," as far as I know, also
doesn't have a dative. DIDWMI with the meaning of "I appoint" either
takes a locative prepositional phrase (in the sense of "put/set") or a
INA clause (in the sense of "delegate"). I haven't checked every example, but at one point, I did check quite a few.
Again, I'd be curious if you could find any.
Here's how I take it:
[Object1-Theme AUTON] EDWKEN [Adjunct KEFALHN
hUPER PANTA] [Object2-Recipient THi EKKLHSIAi].
And (he) gave
[OBJ-THEME him] [ADJUNCT as head over all (things)] [Oblique-Recipient
to the church].
Part II of my review of Paul Danove's recent book deals with DIDWMI a bit with reference to the structure of Bauer's
lexicon.
http://evepheso.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/book-review-verbs-of-transference-by-paul-danove-part-ii/
Mike
http://evepheso.wordpress.com
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