I certainly wish I were more proficient in using syntax searches. I appreciate the help I have received from others in the past.
This post is prompted by a couple verses I encountered the other day. My Greek class will see these on Tuesday.
The verses are:
Matthew 17:14 (NA27)
14Καὶ ἐλθόντων πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπος γονυπετῶν αὐτὸν
Matthew 17:26 (NA27)
26εἰπόντος δέ· ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἄρα γε ἐλεύθεροί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοί.
Both these verses have a genitive absolute (the genitive participle in each in bold type) without an accompanying noun or pronoun in the genitive.
As Daniel Wallace says:
Structurally, the genitive absolute consists of the following:
1) a noun or pronoun in the genitive case (though this is sometimes absent);
2) a genitive anarthrous participle (always);
3) the entire construction at the front of a sentence (usually).
These verses are a couple of cases (I wonder how many there are in the NT) where the noun or pronoun in the genitive case is absent.
I will try to attach a syntax search on my computer, using Open Text and based on Daniel Wallace's book.
I would like to create some sort of a syntax search to find other instances of genitives absolute with the noun or pronoun in the genitive case absent.
I would welcome any help some of my more expert colleagues could offer.
