From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 20:31:37 EST
At 10:30 PM +0000 1/31/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Rev. 2:25
>
>PLHN hO ECETE KRATHSATE ACRIS hOU AN hHXW
>
>Literally:
>however, what, you have, you hold on (to), until, ???, whenever, I shall
>come.
>
>How does hOU function here?
ACRI/ACRIS is actually a preposition with genitive; here the hOU is a
relative pronoun with the relative squeezed into and taking the place of
the antecendent: as for a fuller ACRI/S TOUTOU TOU CRONOU hOU AN hHXW:
"until that time at which I come"--something that otherwise might have been
expressed with a PRIN AN hHXW OR hEWS AN hHXW.
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