[B-Greek] AUTOU in Jo 9:6
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Mar 18 16:50:57 EDT 2011
On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Vasile Stancu wrote:
> What about this (im)possibility: AUTOU works with EPEXRISEN as it
> would with HKOUSEN, for example. EPEXRISEN AUTOU would therefore mean
> 'he anointed him', as HKOUSEN AUTOU means 'he heard him'. Why not
> EPEXRISEN AUTON? Because Jesus anointed somewhat 'a part of him',
> i.e., his eyes, as in the case of HKOUSEN AUTOU, where he heard
> something of him, e.g., his voice, or his words. If he had wanted to
> refer directly to the 'object' of the anointment, he would have said,
> 'EXRISEN TOUS OFQALMOUS AUTOU', as in the case of AKOUW, where we may
> have HKOUSEN TON LOGON.
But AKOUW takes an accusative of the thing heard and a genitive of the
person heard: HKOUSA AUTOU THN FWNHN. The verb EPICRIEIN
appears only in the two verses of John 9 under discussion in the GNT.
LSJ cites EPICRIEIN used with an accusative of the person or surface
anointed and an instrumental dative of the mixture that is smeared
("smear X {acc} with Y {dat}). Unless someone attempts a TLG
search for EPICRIEIN, the evidence available is rather sparse.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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