[B-Greek] AUTOU in Jo 9:6

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Mar 18 09:01:10 EDT 2011


On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Wieland Willker wrote:

> John 9:6 TAUTA EIPWN EPTUSEN CAMAI KAI EPOIHSEN PHLON EK TOU PTUSMATOS KAI
> EPECRISEN AUTOU TON PHLON EPI TOUS OFQALMOUS
> 
> AUTOU is strange here. 
> Is it possible that we have here a "dative-genitive", a genitive with dative
> meaning, like in Modern Greek? D/05 has the dative here, actually. 
> Or does it refer to PTUSMATOS: "the mud of it (the saliva)"?

Look just a few lines later: "EPECRISEN MOU TOUS OFQALMOUS"
John 9:11 APEKRIQH EKEINOS· hO ANQRWPOS hO LEGOMENOS IHSOUS PHLON EPOIHSEN KAI EPECRISEN MOU TOUS OFQALMOUS KAI EIPEN MOI hOTI hUPAGE EIS TON SILWAM KAI NIYAI· APELQWN OUN KAI NIYAMENOS ANEBLEYA. 

The genitive pretty clearly depends on the noun, even in 9:6. It may well be that this usage of the genitive in advance of its noun is a forerunner of the dative usage of the genitive form -- I think these genitive pronouns preceding their head nouns ought to be studied, if they haven't been already. I've cc'd Mike Aubrey, since this seems to be his Steckenpferd.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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