Reflexive Pronouns in New Testament 53 Luke 20:20 kai; parathrhvsante~ ajpevsteilan ejgkaqevtou~ uJpokrinomevnou~ and lying-in-wait they-sent spies pretending eautou~ dikaivou~ ei\nai ... J ; themselves righteous to-be ... Rom 2:19 pepoiqa~ v te seauto;n oJdhgo;n ei\nai tuflw'n, ... you-are-certain and yourself a-guide to-be of-blind-ones Phil 2:3 ajlla; th'/ tapeinofrosuvnh/ ajllhvlou~ hJgouvmenoi uJperevconta~ but in-the humility considering being-better-than eautwn J ' yourselves But in humility consider one another to be better than you are. What distinguishes these examples from others where the reflexive is not used in the embedded clause is that these verbs all indicate either the thought or the expression of the subject. Such verbs may be called «logophoric.» We may therefore provisionally propose that when a com- plement clause of a logophoric verb contains a pronoun which is co-ref- erent with the subject of the logophoric verb, the pronoun will be reflex- ive even if it is not co-referent with anything in its own clause. Such pro- nouns may be also called «logophoric.» Definition 3 (provisional) A logophoric verb is a verb of saying or thinking that takes a complement clause, which con- tains the thought or expression of the subject. Definition 4 A logophoric pronoun is one that occurs in the com- plement clause of a logophoric verb and is co-referent with the subject of the logophoric verb but not co-ref- erent with anything in its own clause. Rule 5 A logophoric pronoun will be reflexive in form. Rule 6 All indirect reflexives in the NT are logophoric. This explains Phil 2:3. The reflexive (eJautw'n) is the genitive direct object of a participle, which in turn serves as the VP of the complement clause of the logophoric verb hJgouvmenoi (‘considering’) 15. The participle represents the thought of the subject of the logophoric verb, and because the pronoun in the embedded clause is co-referent with the subject of logophoric verb, the pronoun is reflexive. The rule does not state that logophoric verbs will always have logophoric pronouns in their complement clauses but only that if they do have a pronoun, the pronoun will be reflexive. In the following example the logophoric pronoun has been omitted. 15 Blass-Debrunner, 215. See the discussion of double accusatives below.