Tag Archives: 2 Corinthians 11:9

Τὸ γὰρ ὑστέρημά μου προσανεπλήρωσαν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἐλθόντες ἀπὸ Μακεδονίας· καὶ ἐν παντὶ ἀβαρῆ ὑμῖν ἐμαυτὸν ἐτήρησα καὶ τηρήσω. (2 Corinthians 11:9)

For my lack the brothers filled up by coming from Macedonia; and in everything unburdensome to you I kept myself and will keep myself.

The Double Movement of Aid and Restraint: Syntax as an Architecture of Dependence

The verse unfolds through a syntactic pairing that maps the movement of support and the counter-movement of intentional restraint, beginning with the causal particle γάρ that anchors the statement as a justification rather than a new claim. The initial noun phrase τὸ ὑστέρημά μου occupies a position of conceptual prominence because its fronting establishes deficiency as the thematic starting point of the sentence, even before any agents or actions appear.… Learn Koine Greek