A Greek grammar to the New Testament, and to the common or Hellenic diction of the later Greek writersWhittaker & Company, 1842 - 237 pages |
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Page 218 - Synecdoche is the rhetorical figure by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part Quintilian Inst, viii., 6, 19.
Page 15 - Matt, xxviii. 1. Mark xvi. 2. Luke xxiv. 1. John xx. 1, 19. Acts xx. 7.
Page 105 - Upon this principle of the reference to a part, is founded the construction by which, with the verbs " to take," " to seize," " to touch," " to carry," &c. the part by which any thing is taken is put in the genitive, while the whole is put in the accusative ; as sXaÇovTo rу; %uví¡s TOV O£UVTijV, " they took Orontes by the girdle." The same construction is retained also with the verbs which signify the opposite of to take, or to seize, viz. " to let go," " to loose," " not to obtain any thing,"...
Page 46 - In both cases the predicate explains the obscure relation of the article, but in the latter the article, even with the aid of its predicate, does not carry back the mind to any object with which it has been recently, or is frequently conversant. It is merely the representative of something, of which, whether known or unknown, an assumption is to be made,' as — O uwouJaio; yap ixourra xpi>ti of9a<J.
Page 121 - Gurmunde fie kinge, A 29230). Elsewhere in ME ask is followed by two accusatives. Lern acquires the meaning 'to teach' in ME and takes two accusatives. Lere 'to teach' governs two accusatives or a dative of the person and an accusative of the thing in OE and two accusatives in ME. Teach takes a dative of the person and an accusative of the thing in OE and two accusatives in ME; the A-text of Lawman's Brut wavers between the dative and accusative of the person. For tell Lawman A has twice a clear...
Page 49 - But on the very ground that these things are so definite in their nature as to leave no room for mistake, the article is often omitted where it might be inserted...
Page 48 - It might be supposed that ordinals would uniformly be preceded by the article, inasmuch as the nouns with which they are joined, do, from. this circumstance, become monadic.
Page 53 - ... had the article, or that both were without it ; and of these, the latter is by far the more probable : for the assumption that the things brought forth were good, is scarcely allowable, this being the very thing to be asserted. The MSS. though some few have та...
Page 54 - not supposed to be in the midst of wolves : but " all serpents are assumed to be prudent, [and all " doves to be harmless.]
Page 45 - the article and the pronoun are essentially the same thing, differing only in having or not having an adjunct ;