The Accusative Absol ute ( þuk taujandan armaion)

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Hailai, allai, þishun Llama_nom.

About the interpretation of "iþ þuk taujandan armaion ni witi hleidumei þeina 
hva taujiþ taihswo þeina":

As I mentioned I do not feel I really understand the construction that Wright 
said was intended here. My guess is related to an impression I have got that 
Greek, or at any rate New Testament Greek, often expands indirect questions 
slightly compared with English, so that "we know who you are" is expressed as 
"we know you, who you are." So perhaps the original behind the Gothic line 
quoted above was literally "let your left hand not know you (when) doing charity, 
what your right hand is doing"; and this, but for the phrase about doing 
charity, could be put into English as "let your left hand not know what your right 
hand is doing." However, to give the participle something to attach to, it 
would be necessary to expand the English translation, so as to produce "whenever 
you are doing charity, let etc". But this is all very uncertain, and I feel I 
am probably blundering about.

Surely it would be helpful to have comments from someone well versed in 
Latin, especially that of the Gospels. Was the Greek genitive absolute regularly 
translated into a Latin ablative absolute? How would the "te facientem" line 
have been understood?

Gerry T.


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