[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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