Re: Another Dative Question
Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:57:08 -0500
At 11:13 AM 11/17/97 -0600, Thomas Bond wrote:
>I
>But, is the same usage in view with vs. 21? EMOI GAR TO ZHN XRISTOS KAI
>TO APOQANEIN KERDOS. What are the possible translations of this
>phrase? "For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain" (NRSV). It is
>the use of the dative here that is my question . . . EMOI.
>
This seems to be the dative of reference, "from my point of view," "as far
as I'm concerned," "with reference to me...."
It's true that dative uses are often hard to pin down.
Mary
Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109 910-759-5331 pender@wfu.edu