From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 05 1998 - 08:34:24 EDT
At 3:12 AM -0500 9/05/98, Paul Zellmer wrote:
>In our review of James 2:14-16, we came across in verse 15 the following
>construction:
>
>EAN ADELFOS hH ADELFH GUMNOI hUPARXWSIN ...
>
>with the plural form being used hereafter. I would have expected the hH
>to have resulted in the use of a *singular* verb and adjective. Is it
>just my English grammar coming through, or do we have an unusual switch
>from singular to plural? If it is ununusual, what, if anything, is the
>significance?
My text reads ADELFOS )\H ADELFH, i.e. not an article between the two
nouns, but rather the conjunction used for "or" (or, with a comparative
word, "than").
Carl W. Conrad
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