Keith Thompson wondered "how exactly does negation work"? I would be hard pressed to say "exactly" how it works, but Porter and BDF have helped me. Stanley Porter (_Idioms of the Greek NT_) explains that a negative can negate either a whole clause (e.g. a verb) or a word. He says, "Clause negation often but not alway [sic] appears at the beginning of a clause or proximate to the verb" (p. 282). BDF (Section 433) says, "The negative stands as a rule before that which is to be negated." Below that it says, "The separation of the negative from the verb to which it belongs can be ambiguous"--and it lists Acts 7:48 and James 3:1 as two examples. Hope that helps, Jonathan Boyd Ankeny, IA ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu