From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 13:28:12 EST
At 12:16 PM -0600 11/10/98, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>In Acts 16:15 we read:
>
>EI KEKRIKATE ME PISTHN TWi KURIWi EINAI
>
>I was tempted to read TWi KURIWi as an instrumental dative limiting KEKRIKATE
>but I didn't find anyone to agree with me. I would assume that the reason for
>this is word order, however I am not certain that this reading is really
>impossible given the word order as it stands.
>
>Is it impossible or highly improbable to read TWi KURIWi as an instrumental
>dative in this context? Would the following word order make in more
>acceptable?
>
>EI KEKRIKATE TWi KURIWi ME PISTHN EINAI
In my opinion it would not; it just seems so sensible to take TWi KURIWi as
dative with PISTHN since PISTOS/H/ON so commonly takes a dative complement.
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