From: Stevens, Charles C (Charles.Stevens@unisys.com)
Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 18:36:29 EDT
Where does MEIZOTERAN in 3 John 4 fit in this scheme, since it has a
reduplicated comparitive sense rather than a superlative component (as I
read it, anyway)?
-Chuck Stevens [SMTP: Charles.Stevens@unisys.com]
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> From: ben.crick@argonet.co.uk[SMTP:ben.crick@argonet.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 4:19 PM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: Re: Comparatives/Superlatives in the NT
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> On Thu 8 Oct 98 (19:42:30), plong@gbcol.edu wrote:
> > Both Perschbacher and Wallace use the term "elative" which I was not
> > familiar with until reading their sections. I have seen "strengthened
> > superlative," although that seems like a different thing to me.
>
> Phillip:
>
> Perhaps Perschenbacher and Wallace had Paul's ELACISTOTEROS in mind from
> Ephesians 3:8: "less than the least" or "the leastest". Reminds me of
> "the Hostess with the mostest" in /Call me Madam/. 8-D
>
> Am I right? I only have JH Moulton, /An Introduction to the Study of NT
> Greek/ (revised ed 1955) and HPV Nunn, /The Elements of NT Greek/ (3rd ed
> 1923) here. Moulton does have short sections on both Comparatives and
> Superlatives: see his Index II. Nunn also has paragraphs on /The
> Comparison
> of Adjectives/ (pp 83f) and /The Superlative/ (p 84).
>
> ERRWSQE
> Ben
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