From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 09 1998 - 15:20:14 EST
<x-flowed>At 11:27 AM -0800 11/9/98, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>There are times when the meaning of a text is more or less clear but the
>syntax is not clear at all. This raises some intriguing questions about the
>relationship of syntax to semantics, questions which I will not explore in
>this post.
>
>Acts 16:13 contains a difficult reading:
>
>hOU ENOMIZOMEN PROSEUCHN EINAI (NA27) (A2 Psi 33 81 bo)
>
>hOU ENOMIZETO PROSEUCH EINAI (Majority Text)
>
>hOU EDOKEI PROSEUCH EINAI (Bezae)
>
>hOU ENOMIZON EN PROSEUCHi EINAI (Blass)
>
>hOU ENOMIZEN PROSEUCHN EINAI (Aleph)
>
>hOU ENOMIZEN PROSEUCH EINAI (p74)
>
>Now this is not a question about which reading is the original. Rather, it is
>a question about the syntax of the reading adopted by NA27. Could some one
>just explain to me how the following reading can be made syntactically
>intelligible?
>
>hOU ENOMIZOMEN PROSEUCHN EINAI (NA27) (A2 Psi 33 81 bo)
I would have thought this pretty straightforward, once one recognizes that
hOU in this instance is the relative adverb, "where," equivalent to the
earlier Greek hOPOU. The text says, "We went outside the gate alongside the
river, where we thought there was a place of prayer." Thus: EINAI is
existential "to exist," PROSEUCHN is the subject of EINAI, hOU is the
adverb construed with EINAI and referring back to the area designated by
"outside the gate by the river," and the acc. + inf. is governed by
ENOMIZOMEN, "we supposed," "we imagined."
Does that help?
Carl W. Conrad
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