Reflexive Pronouns in New Testament 51 text at all. Again the trigger is more semantically than syntactically determined. The trigger is a combination of the underlying subject mev and the clause-mate uJmi`n (‘you’). Presumably the fact that there is no real trigger explains the strange addition of uJmw'n te kai; ejmou` at the end of the sentence. It seems to be an attempt to clarify the meaning of a gar- bled sentence. We may therefore conclude that, apart from the main class of excep- tions that will be discussed below, reflexives have clause-mate triggers even if those triggers are not expressed. There is normally no distinction between reflexives in matrix clauses and reflexives in embedded clauses. Definition 1 A direct reflexive has a co-referent trigger in its own clause. Indirect Reflexives In the NT when the subject of an infinitive is co-referent with the subject of the matrix clause, is may either be expressed or not expressed. If expressed it will be in the accusative case; if not, its mod- ifiers will be in the nominative case. According to Blass, «The con- struction [with the accusative subject] is more striking in the case of an articular infinitive, where it is not the reflexive, but the simple person- al pronoun that is inserted 13.» In other words, when the infinitive has an article, its subject is a personal pronoun and otherwise it is a reflex- ive pronoun. This is almost true as far as it goes, but there is a better, more general explanation. A pronoun in an embedded clause may be reflexive when it is co-ref- erent with the subject of the matrix clause even if it is not co-referent with the subject of its own clause. This includes reflexives that are themselves the accusative subject of an infinitive and whose antecedents are in a matrix clause 14. This will be dealt with explicitly in doubtful cases. This is especially true of the accusative subject of an infinitive but is also true of other kinds of pronouns within an embedded clause. It also occurs once in a participial clause (Phil 2:3, see p. 53, below). Definition 2 An indirect reflexive occurs in an embedded clause and does not have a co-referent trigger in its own clause, but in a matrix clause. 13 F. Blass and A. Debrunner, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (translated and revised from the ninth-tenth German edition by Robert W. Funk; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1961) 209. 14 The problem with this definition is that it is sometimes difficult to know whether an accusative is the subject of the infinitive or the direct object of the matrix verb.