From: Paul S. Dixon (dixonps@juno.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 1998 - 01:52:02 EST
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:53:36 -0600 "Edgar M. Krentz" <emkrentz@mcs.com>
writes:
<snip>
>There is a construction that the Greek rhetoricians called SUNTAXIS
>APO KOINOU, in which a phrase or a word can be said or written only
once,
>but will be understood as modifying two different other words. There is
an
>example of this in the LXX translation of Habbakuk 2:4 reproduced in
Romans
>1:17: hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI. The words EK PISTEWS may >in
Greek modify both DIKAIOS and ZHSETAi, and it will have two difference
>senses: "out of fidelity" and "out of trust."
Fascinating. Are there any other ready examples of this?
Paul Dixon
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:38:57 EDT