Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...37), it appears e. g. in Is. 42. 24-Tibn fSTn lax-sb "They would not walk in If T T I ' T » his ways." But this latter use is isolated and poetic, the inf. constr. being usually employed, § 111 sq. § 114 sq. § 105. The inf. abs. governs dependent words only in the rection of its verb--never in the genitive: Deut. 3. 6 "W'bs D"itin = "the destroying every city" for "the destruction of every city". According to § 88, 4, a suffix after it must always have ny prefixed." Bern. a. In this also the inf. abs. resembles the other verbal forms that a noun may be added to it as subject (as in the case in § 43 Bern, a): Ps. 17. 5 Tprftwca ICX "rftfr The circumstance that "my footsteps take fast hold of thy paths" = the holding fast of my footsteps &c. (comp. § 117). When, however, the subject can in any way be supplied from the context, it is rather omitted, as in the exx. § 106, comp. § 117. § 106. The inf. abs. is moreover used in place of the finite verb in lively and rhetorically brief poetic diction," and, more rarely and particularly in later writers, in other cases as well. It stands thus:--1) For any finite verb, where special force and brevity are aimed at: 2 Kin. 4. 43 nrrim biSK rrini IKS fib "Thus " m T T f T saith the Lord, eating and leaving over" (i. e. Ye certainly shall eat and have more than enough). In this way it is often employed a) In descriptions (like the Latin infin. Mstoricus), especially of occurences that excite the astonishment or the indignation of the speaker: Hos. 4. 2 abai ri'S'Y cnr ribs CSWl "Swearing and lying and murder and theft and adultery (viz. they practise), or V) When something already indicated is again to be graphically expanded: Jer. 9. 23 brfcn bbtirrtan bnrv;...
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