A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek; Regarded as a Sure Basis for New Testament Exegesis (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...striving after (Jelf 510). By Donaldson and Jelf it is directly con nected with the eautal genitive: "When the genitive after these verbs appears in the form of au infinitive with the article, the cause generally assumes the character of a motive of action." (Don. p. 480). 1 (li not this a clause of purpoie t In Rom. i. 24, 7tagi6a)xfv avrovg 6 dtog.... tig dxa&agalav zov - n ft of f often xa atofiaza avxaiv iv iavzolg, the infin. depends immediately on the noun axa&crgc., and there is nothing strange in the omission of xrv before this noun (Rom. xv. 23, 1 C. ix. 6): the genitive points out in what the axa&agaia consisted, commisit impuritati, qnw cemebatitr in &c. Fritzsche is more circumstantial: "virgula post dxa&ago. collocata ante zov mente repete dxadageiav." What need there cau be for this I cannot see, since dxn&aga. and ariftcig. stand close together, and the genitive can so well be understood as indicating the sphere of the dxadagaia. Similarly in Rom. viii. 12 the infin. roti xorcf adgxa Jtjv must be considered dependent on 6ptiUzriv, in accordance with the regular phrase 6ptikitTjv thai Tii'Of: see Fritz. Matt. p. 844. In L. i. 74 also Tov Sovvai is most simply taken in connexion with ooxov; compare Jer. xi. 5. It soon became usual, however, to employ this construction in a looser sense, --not only a. After verbs which contain in themselves the notion of (requesting1, commanding3, resolving, and which therefore mediately express design; e.g. A. xv. 20, xgtVw.... imaxtlhai ctvtoig Tov U7it%ead-m, to send them an injunction In abstain, L. iv. 10 (from the LXX) To'is ayyiloig avtov evreXelTai negi aov Tov dimpvXdai A. xxvii. 1 (where Tov anontelv cannot be connected with the following 7ictQedidov...