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The Infinitive With Two Substantival Accusatives

The Infinitive With Two Substantival Accusatives THE INFINITIVE WITH TWO SUBSTANTIVAL ACCUSATIVES An Ambiguous Construction? by JEFFREY T. REED La Mirada, CA I. The Problem Stated After searching unsuccessfully in several Classical and New Testament Greek grammars for a rule to help solve an ambiguous construction in the infinitive, H.R. Moeller and A. Kramer developed their own rule that supposedly resolved the ambiguity.' 1 The problem they attempted to solve is found in a clause where the infinitive governs both a subject and object in the accusative case. In this construction, the subject and object cannot be determined by the inflectional forms. The effect of this type of ambiguity on exegesis is demonstrated in 2 Cor 2:13. Is it "When I went into Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I had not peace in my spirit when I didn't find Titus" (NIV) or "when Titus didn't find me"? Even when looking at the surrounding context, it is possible to argue for the second reading. Moeller and Kramer's 1 See H.R. Moeller and A. Kramer, "An Overlooked Pattern in NT Greek," Nov T 5 (1962) 25-35, which is partially based, with further expansions, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

The Infinitive With Two Substantival Accusatives

Reed, Jeffrey T.
Novum Testamentum , Volume 33 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0048-1009
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10.1163/156853691X00231
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THE INFINITIVE WITH TWO SUBSTANTIVAL ACCUSATIVES An Ambiguous Construction? by JEFFREY T. REED La Mirada, CA I. The Problem Stated After searching unsuccessfully in several Classical and New Testament Greek grammars for a rule to help solve an ambiguous construction in the infinitive, H.R. Moeller and A. Kramer developed their own rule that supposedly resolved the ambiguity.' 1 The problem they attempted to solve is found in a clause where the infinitive governs both a subject and object in the accusative case. In this construction, the subject and object cannot be determined by the inflectional forms. The effect of this type of ambiguity on exegesis is demonstrated in 2 Cor 2:13. Is it "When I went into Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I had not peace in my spirit when I didn't find Titus" (NIV) or "when Titus didn't find me"? Even when looking at the surrounding context, it is possible to argue for the second reading. Moeller and Kramer's 1 See H.R. Moeller and A. Kramer, "An Overlooked Pattern in NT Greek," Nov T 5 (1962) 25-35, which is partially based, with further expansions,

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