Re: EIS+verb EIS
Paul S. Dixon (dixonps@juno.com)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:13:00 EST
On Sat, 08 Nov 1997 09:46:33 -0800 Don Wilkins
<dwilkins@ucr.campus.mci.net> writes:
>At 07:27 AM 11/8/97 -0500, Mary L B Pendergraft wrote:
>>At 05:05 AM 11/8/97 EST, Paul S. Dixon wrote:
>>
>>>. Since Luke and Hebrews are perhaps closest to Classical
>>>Greek in style, am wondering if this phenomenon (no repetition of the
>>>preposition in an EIS+verb construction) is not especially prevalent
in
>>>Classical Greek. Or, another to put it, is the repetition of the
>>>preposition a later development in the Greek language?
>>>
>>
>>No, it's my impression that it's fairly standard in classical prose and
>>less frequent in poetry.
>>
>I would agree with Mary. Moreover, if anything, it would be more likely
that
>the repetition of the preposition (one should always avoid the term
>"redundancy" in this context) would tend to decline after the Classical
>period. However I have not yet done any serious research into
non-literary
>Greek of the Classical period, so as far as I know there might be no
real
>historical trend either way.
>
Carl adds:
>No, I think you're right, Paul. I think it is more common in the
classical
>Attic (it could be checked easily enough, although I haven't done it).
In addition, I just ran a check on the LXX in comparison to the NT.
Here's what I got:
LXX NT
EISHLQEN 219 43
EISNLQEN with no other
occurrence of EIS in verse 103 10
In the LXX EISHLQEN occurs without the additional EIS preposition in the
same verse 43% of the time, while in the NT it occurs only 23%. It does
seem the additional EIS is occurring more frequently with time.
I suspect Homer may have been more pithy, at least when it came to
describing entrances.
By the way, Carl, I loved your logic. Actually, it did make good sense.
Thanks.
Paul Dixon