[B-Greek] Didache 4:10

Bert de Haan dehaanaf at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 15:17:54 EST 2008


 Oh of course it is a participle here.  I simply missed that.
Thanks.


> From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> To: "Hugh Donohoe Jr." <justusjcmylord at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:01:05 -0500
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Didache 4:10
>
> On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Hugh Donohoe Jr. wrote:
>
> > Bert,
> >
> > ELPIZOUSIN is a present participle, dative plural.
> > TOIS makes the participle like a substantive.
>
> To be still more precise, the article with a participle makes it
> adjectival to qualify any substantive, but as an adjective may become
> substantival with the additional of a participle, so the entire
> phrase, in this instance TOIS EPI TON AUTON QEON ELPIZOUSIN, becomes a
> substantive in agreement with and in apposition to the substantive(s)
> with which it agrees, in this instance DOULWi and PAIDISKHi.
>
> > Bert de Haan
> > OUK EPITACEIS DOULWi SOU H PAIDISKHi (TOIS EPI TON
> > AUTON QEON
> > ELPIZOUSIN) EN PIKRIAi SOU, MHPOTE OU MH FOBHQHSONTAI
> > TON EP'
> > AMFOTEROIS QEON.
> >
> > You shall not order your slave or maid (the ones who
> > hope in the same
> > God) with harshness [in your anger maybe?] lest they
> > will no longer
> > fear the God who is over you both.
> >
> > My question is about the section in parenthesis. I had
> > to check a
> > translation before I knew what was meant.  I assume
> > that TOIS is
> > dative because it refers back to DOULWi and PAIDISKHi.
> > The way it is
> > translated here TOIS is the subject of ELPIZOUSIN. Is
> > this a "normal
> > abnormality" or is the translation wrong?
> > Thanks.
> > Bert de Haan.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >


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