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SECT. XLIV.]

OF THE INFINITIVE.

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say: they preached to them not to steal; ye have been taught to lay aside. In Acts x. 22. XpnparíZeodaι occurs, which is almost uniformly employed to denote the direction of an oracle, a divine injunction. Finally, when, after verbs of beseeching, the Inf. must be rendered by may, such import is comprehended in the meaning of those verbs in the context in question, as in 2 Cor. x. 2. déquas rò più) Tapav Daßῥῆσαι τῇ πεποιθήσει, as if, I beseech you in reference to my not being bold, that is, to see that I be not bold.1

c. The Article is put before the Inf. when it is the object, to substantivise it, and thus give it greater prominence (Rost 682.), as in Rom. xiii. 8. xiv. 13. (Luke vii. 21. Var.) 1 Cor. iv. 6. 2 Cor. ii. 1. viii. 10. Ph. iv. 10. comp. above, 1. (Hm. Soph. Aj. 114.); specially at the beginning of a sentence (Thuc. 2, 53. Xenoph. M. 4, 3, 1.), 1 Cor. xiv. 39. τὸ λαλεῖν γλώσσαις μὴ κωλύετε (comp. Soph. Phil. 1241. ὅς σε κωλύσει τὸ ὁρᾶν). In Ph. ii. 6. οὐχ άρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο Tò εivas loa De, the Inf. with the Article is the immediate object to yʊ., and άpray. is a Predicate, comp. Thuc. 2, 87. ovxì δικαίαν έχει τέκμαρσιν τὸ ἐκφοβῆναι, and Bhdy 316.

Especially deserving of attention is the use (in Luke peculiarly frequent) of the Inf. with the Acc. after yevero, as in Mr. ii. 23. EYEVETO TapaTopEveσDas auróv accidit, ut transiret, Acts xvi. 16. ἐγένετο ἐγεν. παιδίσκην τινά - - ἀπαντῆσαι ἡμῖν, xix. 1. ἐγέν. Παῦλον διελθόντα - - ἐλθεῖν εἰς Ἔφεσον, iv. 5. ix. 3. 32. 37. 48. xi. 26. xiv. 1. xxi. 1. 5. xxii. 6. xxvii. 44. xxviii. 8. 17. Luke iii. 21 f. vi. 1. 6. xvi. 22. etc. Here the Infinitive clause is to be considered the (extended) subject to ¿yévero, as after ovveẞn (see immediately), and in Latin after aequum est, apertum est, etc. (Zumpt Gr. 505.): it came to pass that Jesus passed over, etc. The construction is good Greek, though the frequent use of eyevero with the Inf., instead of the historical tense of the particular verb, is an imitation of the Hebrew

ויהי

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In Greek we find grammatical parallels in συνέβη τὴν πόλιν - εivas zupιɛvovσav Diod. S. 1, 50. 3, 22. 39. Plat. legg. 1. 635 a. Demosth. Polycl. 709 c. Dion. H. IV. 2089. and frequently, particularly in Polybius (also 2 Macc. iii. 2.), which occurs also once

1 In 2 Cor. ii. 7. BoTe χαρίσασθαι καὶ παρακαλέσαι the two Infinitives, in the same way, denote what should be, and not what actually takes place. As is not to be supplied here, but the clause with ixavóv has the same influence on these Infinitives: The reproach is sufficient,-that you may, on the contrary, now forgive him etc.

2 That same construction occurs in Acts xxii. 17. éyévető μus úπOOTρÉÝαVTI Eis ̔Ιερουσαλὴμ - - γενέσθαι με ἐν ἐκστάσει, where, with equal propriety, the Infin. might have depended on os TooT. (accidit mihi); and probably this construction would have been adopted, had not the writer been led to depart from it by the intervention of the Gen. abs. καὶ προσευχομένου μου ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ.