Patrick A. Tiller 46 1 Cor 10:29 suneidhsin de; le;gw oujci; th;n eJautou` ajlla; th;n tou` eJtevrou. v conscience but I-say not the of-yourself but the of-the other. Now I do not mean your own conscience but that of the other. However the problem with this sentence is not that the antecedent is in a governing clause but that the antecedent is not in the sentence at all. This verse is a special case that must be dealt with only after some gener- al rules have been demonstrated. Direct Reflexives After I have established some general principles, I will return to the attempt to define indirect reflexives in a way that is useful for the NT. The question now is whether the trigger is best defined as the subject of the clause (syntactic constraint) or as the agent of the action which the reflex- ive receives (semantic constraint) or as something else. The trigger of the direct reflexive (or reciprocal) is nearly always both the subject of the clause (whether expressed or implied in the verbal inflection) in which the reflexive is found and the agent of the action of the clause. Word order is not decisive; the reflexive may follow or precede its trigger. Gal 2:12 upestellen kai; ajfwvrizen eJauto;n Jv (he)-withdrew and separated himself Rom 14:7 oudei~ ga;r hJmw'n eJautw'/ j; zh` no-one for of-us to-himself lives For none of us lives to himself. 2 Cor 13:5 eautou~ peiravzete J ; yourselves test (imperative) Rom 5:8 sunisthsin de; th;n eJautou` ajgavphn eij~ hJma`~ oJ qeov~ v demonstrates but the of-himself love for us [the] God But God demonstrates his love for us. But the trigger is not always directly the agent of the action, especial- ly in the case of passive verbs. Gal 5:15 blepete mh; uJp’ allhlwn ajnalwqh`te. v jv See lest by one-another you-be-consumed. Matt 12:25 pasa basileiva merisqei`sa kaq’ eauth~ ejrhmou`tai ... ` J ` every kingdom divided against itself is-depopulated ...9 9 Some would consider this to be an example of an indirect reflexive. I have includ- ed it here because of the amazing scarcity of reflexives with a passive verb. My discussion of indirect reflexives will show that I am correct in listing it here as a direct reflexive.