[B-Greek] emoi mathetai (Jn 13,35)

Samuel Sais samuel at sais-cat.net
Thu Nov 26 14:24:02 EST 2009


Of course, emoi means "my" but since it's an adjective it must agree with 
its substantive in case, gender AND number.
Samuel Sais

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: "Cornell Machiavelli" <cornellmachiavelli at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Samuel Sais" <samuel at sais-cat.net>; "Biblical Greek" 
<b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] emoi mathetai (Jn 13,35)


"that you are MY disciples ..." The adjective is plural because it qualifies 
the plural noun, MAQHTAI, not because it points to possession by a plural 
pronoun..

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)

On Thursday, November 26, 2009, at 11:26AM, "Cornell Machiavelli" 
<cornellmachiavelli at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Samuel,
>
>How would you translate EMOI, assuming it is Nom Plural?
>
>εν τουτω γνωσονται παντες [οτι εμοι μαθηται εστε] εαν αγαπην εχητε εν 
>αλληλοις.....
>
>...that you are OUR disciples...?
>
> Sincerely,
>
>C. Q. Machiavelli
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Samuel Sais <samuel at sais-cat.net>
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 6:22:50 AM
>Subject: [B-Greek] emoi mathetai (Jn 13,35)
>
>Dear b-greekers,
>in John 13,35 we read "emoì mathetaí este" that is analised like a Dative 
>Possessive construction by Zerwick - Grosvenor. But I wonder why "emoí" 
>cannot be a Nominative Plural Masculine of the possessive pronoun 
>"emós, -é, -ón"? Can anyone shed light on it?
>Thank you
>Samuel Sais
>Barcelona
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