From: Steven Lo Vullo (doulos@merr.com)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 00:36:51 EST
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On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 09:42 AM, Clwinbery@aol.com wrote:
> James Brooks and I also allowed for a category of the article used as a
> pronoun, but the more I think of it, the more I think such is
> unneccessary.
>
> One of our egs was Matt. 26:28. TOUTO ESTIN TO hAIMA MOU THS
> DIAQHKHS *TO* PERI POLLWN EKCUNNOMENON EIS AFESIN hAMARTIWN.
>
> Now, it could be argued that the participle, EKCUNNOMENON, serves as
> the verb of the "relative" clause, but I think it suffices to say that
> the
> second article agreeing with hAIMA simply puts everything following it
> into an attributive position to hAIMA. Relative clauses have finite
> verbs
> expressed or understood, so I would be more convinced if we could
> find an article introducing a clause with a finite verb. Since there are
> two modifiers of hAIMA, MOU and THS DIAQHKHS, the use of the
> following article is the only way to express this attribution. Could
> this
> be one more of the categories that have gotten into the grammars but
> needs to be taken out?
Yes, Carlton, I think you are right to be suspicious of this category.
It seems to me this is a case of reading into the GNT what is required
or preferred in order to make a smooth English translation, rather than
an assessment of the Greek on its own merits.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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