[B-Greek] AUTOU in Jo 9:6

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Mar 18 15:06:16 EDT 2011


On Mar 18, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Wieland Willker wrote:

>> To be sure, it is more common for the genitive pronoun to 
>> follow its head noun, but it quite frequently precedes it 
>> and even may be separated from it, as in Mt 8:8
>> and Mk 5:30.
> 
> But isn't the case Jo 9:6 a bit different? 
> AUTOU is in front, but in front of TON PHLON. 
> Do you really think that it belongs to TOUS OFQALMOUS?

Yes, I do. I really do.

> I'm surprised that you have no problem with it, since so
> many commentators (and scribes) are puzzled. 

Maybe I should read the commentators, but what I read
is the Greek text, and if the Greek text makes perfectly
good sense as it stands, I don't see a problem.

Perhaps my problem, if it is a problem is that I wrote a
dissertation (half a century ago) on adjectives and pronouns
separated from their head words. One of the common 
patterns is abVAB -- where a and b are adjectives, V
is a verb, and A and B are the head nouns with which 
the adjectives (or sometimes pronouns) construe.


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






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