Re: eis + accusative

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Sat Jul 18 1998 - 06:30:01 EDT


At 06:11 AM 7/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:39 PM -0400 7/17/98, Jim West wrote:
>>in Dana/Mantey, sec. 111, eis is discussed.
>>"resultant meanings: with the accusative case: into, unto, to for. These
>>meanings are very common." "Eis is used more than 1700 times in the NT, and
>>it occurs only in the accusative case."
>>
>>Their "resultant meanings" I take as meaning result.
>
>Perhaps my problem is with the English; I never would have thought that
>"resultant meanings" implied such a thing as "accusative of result."

I may be (and probably am) mistaken. But the next section of D/M deals with
another subset of eis + acc usages. This differentiation led me to my solution.
I think their discussion is fairly straightforward- so if I have misread I
am open and willing for correction.

>Carl W. Conrad

Best,

Jim

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