[B-Greek] ACTS 20:13 PROELQONTES/ PROSELQONTES
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Mar 15 14:03:15 EST 2007
On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> ACTS 20:13 hHMEIS DE PROELQONTES EPI TO PLOION ANHCQHMEN EPI THN
> ASSON EKEIQEN MELLONTES ANALAMBANEIN TON PAULON: hOUTWS GAR
> DIATETAGMENOS HN MELLWN AUTOS PEZEUEIN.
>
> It has been suggested that PROSELQONTES would be a probable scribal
> improvement of this passage and for that reason PROELQONTES is more
> likely to be original. Why would PROSELQONTES be considered an
> improvement. It certainly doesn't fit the context as well as
> PROELQONTES.
>
> Another issue here is EPI used to mark a GOAL (see BDAG p.364 #4). I
> was tempted to read EPI TO PLOION as "on the boat"
but how could it mean that? EPI with acc. must indicate movement onto
something.
> and take hHMEIS DE
> PROELQONTES EPI TO PLOION as statement that temporally overlapped
> with the ANHCQHMEN EPI THN ASSON but the aorist PROELQONTES is
> against that reading. I wonder, if we had a present participle here,
> would that still be an unGreek way of reading this? How would we say
> in Koine "We went ahead on the boat, sailing to Assos."?
PROERCOMENOI EN TWi PLOIWi EPI THN ASSON EPLEOMEN.
Carl W. Conrad
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