2 Cor. 3:18 Mike Sangrey msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Thu Jun 21 11:30:00 EDT 2001
Intermediate Grammars Rev 4.11 (breaking of Sharp’s Rule) hHMEIS DE PANTES ANAKEKALUMMENWi PROSWPWi THN DOXAN KURIOU KATOPTRIZOMENOI THN AUTHN EIKONA METAMORFOUMEQA APO DOXHS EIS DOXAN, KAQAPER APO KURIOU PNEUMATOS.Could HMEIS DE PANTES mean “We all (thought of as a group) …?Or should it mean “We all (thought of as individuals) …?What is the basis for determining the one or the other?Thanks ahead of time.– Mike Sangreymsangrey at BlueFeltHat.orgLandisburg, Pa. “The first one last wins.” “A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth.”
Intermediate GrammarsRev 4.11 (breaking of Sharp’s Rule)
2 Cor. 3:18 Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jun 21 13:37:33 EDT 2001
1 John 3:6a Rev 4.11 (breaking of Sharp’s Rule) At 11:30 AM -0400 6/21/01, Mike Sangrey wrote:> hHMEIS DE PANTES ANAKEKALUMMENWi PROSWPWi THN DOXAN KURIOU KATOPTRIZOMENOI> THN AUTHN EIKONA METAMORFOUMEQA APO DOXHS EIS DOXAN, KAQAPER APO KURIOU> PNEUMATOS.> >Could HMEIS DE PANTES mean “We all (thought of as a group) …?Yes. In this instance PANTES qualifies hHMEIS “predicatively”–or I mightsay, “adverbially” (although such description doesn’t seem to please somedescriptive linguists). So hHMEIS PANTES means something like “withoutexception we …”>Or should it mean “We all (thought of as individuals) …?When a Hellenistic author wants to emphasize the distributive qualifications/he will probably write hHMEIS hEKASTOI, “we each of us individually …”where the hEKASTOI is perhaps OVER-emphasized. Nevertheless, when theemphasis rests upon individual members of a group carrying out and actionor being in such-and-such a state, hEKASTOS may be used with a singularverb, or hEKASTOI with a plural verb.>What is the basis for determining the one or the other?I hope that answers the question.– Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityHome: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
1 John 3:6aRev 4.11 (breaking of Sharp’s Rule)