From: Carl William Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 12 1997 - 13:43:57 EST
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
> Can a nominative participle function as an adverb? The long participial clause
> in Acts 7:36 starting with POIHSAS appears to be adverbially related to
> EXHGAGHEN. If this participle had been in the accusative I would have no
> problem here but with it in the nominative I was tempted to find some way of
> making it appositional to hOUTOS which I think is unlikely. I spent an hour
> scanning my grammars for a discussion of the Nominative Participle used
> adverbially and didn't find anything that seemed to address this topic.
>
> No doubt there is something quite obvious that I am overlooking here. What is it?
This is a pretty standard usage of a participle in agreement with the
subject as a circumstantial participle, equivalent to an adverbial clause;
here I think a pretty standard way of conveying the sense would be "led
out by performing miracles ..."
Carl W. Conrad
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