From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Thu Dec 04 1997 - 09:12:37 EST
On the plane back from Austin, I found myself staring at this verse:
Rev 11:3 KAI DWSW TOIS DUSIN MARTUSIN MOU
Robertson's Word Pictures, which is often helpful for this kind of thing,
says "dative after DWSW", which it is, of course, but I already *knew*
that. The speaker is not giving something *to* the two witnesses, he is
sending the two witnesses. In the phrase DWSW SOI TAS KLEIDAS THS BASILEIAS.
Or perhaps the speaker *is* giving something to the two witnesses? Perhaps
what is given is the ability to prophecy (KAI PROFHTEUSOUSIN hHMERAS XILIAS
DIAKOSIAS EKSHKONTA PERIBEBLHMENOI SAKKOUS)? Would that be a legitimate
reading? If so, is it the authority to prophecy that is given, or a time in
which they may prophecy?
Can the direct object of DWSW ever occur in the dative? Normally, I think
of dative complements of DIDWMI as reserved for the indirect object...
Jonathan
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