From: Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@f1n7.sp2net.wfu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 17 1999 - 12:13:19 EST
Additional thoughts:
with TI POIHSANTAS..... Clement appears to echo the question of Lk 18.18
TI POIHSAS ZWHN AIOWNION KLHRONOMHSW;
he has made the participles plural and has replaced verb with a similar
notion.
Now I have to think about Sophocles before my 1:00 class.
Mary
>At 10:48 AM 2/17/99 -0500, Randy LEEDY wrote:
>>Bart Ehrman inquired:
>>
>>>Does anyone want to explain to me how s/he understands the grammar
>of
>>2
>>>Clement 2:6: ti oun estin poiesantas epituchein auton, ei me to
>>hosios
>>>kai dikaios anastrephesthai?
>>
>>I finally found the passage at V.6 (Lightfoot's edition), and using W
>>for omega and H for eta, the passage reads TI OUN ESTIN POIHSANTAS
>>EPITUCEIN AUTWN, EI MH TO HOSIWS KAI DIKAIWS ANASTREFESQAI.
>>
>>I understand the grammar as follows:
>>
>>TI - object of POIHSANTAS
>>ESTIN - existential use (no complement: "it exists")
>
>What about ESTIN = "it is possible"?
>
>Mary
>
>
>
Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109-7343
336-758-5331 (NOTE: this is a new number) pender@wfu.edu
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