Pronomen Abundans and Pronomen Coniunctum. A ... - DWC

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5.1. In Ancient Greek and the Koine.
5.1.1. In Ancient Greek relat. connection does not occur very of ten:
see I 1.4 339 • All the examples where the pronomen abundans occurs are
cases of relat. connection.
5.1.2. In the Koine it occurs more frequently: see I 2.1.2.3, where some
percentages are mentioned. Especially Polybius is very fond of it (Diodorus
just a little less): for him it is a perfect method to indicate that sentences
belong to each other, something very important for an author who likes
to bring the shorter clauses together in big coherent complex es : see
I 2.3.2.1, point 2.
5.1.2.1. In the papyri relat. connection does not occur very of ten.
This is not surprising: this idiom is not at home in documents and letters,
it is more suitable to the story. That is why historians are so fond of it:
the relat. connection helps them in making clear to the readers what
exactly is the correlation between the present and the preceding sentences.
It is found more of ten in documents than in letters. In the centuries B.C.
there are not many examples, but later their number increases. Two
examples follow, one of a document, another one of a letter:
P. Oxy. 1273,18 ff. (260 A.D.) ... elVat ... T~V oÀ'YJv qJee~v xevaoiJ "OLVOiJ
flvaytaiov . .. návTa "eqJaÀalov olç ovbÈv neoaeyeáqJ'YJ, neei ~ç neO"elflév'YJç
qJeeaijç ... ~ è"CJóTtç ... WfloÀóY'YJaev ..., "... making the total of the whole
dowry 1 mnaiaion ..., a sum total to which no addition has been made;
and questioned about the aforesaid dowry ..." 340.
P. Flor. 137,2 ff. (264 A.D.) "ai aÀÀoTe vfliv èyeáqJ'YJ T~V neemol1jatv
ToiJ aet-rov ... b1jÀwaat, vfleîÇ bÈ ~fleÀfJaaTe ...· 8 "liv viJv not~aaTe ...,
"You were ordered once before to report the quantities of corn stored
up ..., but you neglected the order ... Do it this time, however ...".
5.1.2.2. The occurrence of the relat. connection in the NT differs along
with the different books: there are only a few examples in, e.g., Mark
and the Apocalypse, more in Luke, and a fair number in Acts. Two
examples:
Lk 11,53-12,1 ... ije~avTo oE Yf}aflflaTeîç ... CJeLVWÇ ÈvéXeLV ... èvebeevovTeç
aVTov {}'YJeevaal Tt è" ToiJ aTóflaToç aVToiJ. 'Ev olç ... ije~aTo UyelV ...
Acts 7,20 'Ev cp "ateip lyevv~{}1j Mwvaijç, "ai ~v àaTeioç Tip {}eip' 8ç
dveTf}áqJ1J ... lv Tip oi,,'!> ToiJ naTeÓç 341.
5.2. General survey
Before dealing with the use of the relat. connection in the byzantine
petiod, it is good, I believe, to review the history of the phenomenon
through the ages. This will be done by means of the adjoined tabie, in
339 See also Kühner-Gerth 11, pp. 434-6 and Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 644,13.
340 The translation of this (no. 5) and the following papyrus (no. 144) is by
Hunt-Edgar.
341 For more examples see Robertson, pp. 721-2.