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The text below comes from the first half of Tobit, Chapter 5 (with some omissions). Thobi's son, Thobias, raises some important questions in response to his father's command: how will he find his way to this distant city? how will he reclaim the money that his father deposited? I think you will be impressed by the token that Thobias will use to reclaim the money! Meanwhile, in order to find his way to Rages, he will need the help of a guide who knows the way - which is how the angel Raphael enters the story, although he keeps his identity as an angel secret. |
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| Tunc Thobias, respondens Thobi, patri suo, dixit: |
Thobias: Hebrew
name (nominative) respondens...dixit : participle plus verb (he answered... and said...) |
| "Omnia, quaecumque mihi praecepisti, pater, faciam. |
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| Quomodo autem potero hanc pecuniam recipere ab illo? |
autem: postpositive recipere: complementary infinitive with potero |
| Neque ille me novit, neque ego novi illum. |
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| Quod signum dabo illi, ut me cognoscat et credat et det mihi hanc pecuniam? |
cognoscat...credate...det: subjunctives with ut |
| Sed neque vias, quae ad Mediam, novi, ut eam illuc." |
quas: relative pronoun, agreeing with vias in gender and number eam: subjunctive with ut |
| Tunc, respondens Thobi Thobiae, filio suo, dixit: |
Thobi: Hebrew
name (nominative) respondens...dixit : participle plus verb (he answered... and said...) |
| "Chirographum dedit mihi, et chirographum meum dedi illi et divisi in duas partes, et unusquisque unam accepimus, et posui cum ipsa pecunia. |
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| Et nunc, fili, inquire tibi hominem fidelem, qui eat tecum, et dabimus illi mercedem, donec venias. “ |
qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with hominem in gender and number venias: subjunctive with expression of time (donec)
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| Et exiit Thobias quaerere hominem, qui iret cum ipso in Mediam et qui haberet notitiam viae. |
Thobias: Hebrew name (nominative) quaerere: infinitive
to express purpose |
| Et invenit Raphael angelum stantem ante ipsum et nesciebat illum angelum Dei esse. |
Raphael: Hebrew name (agrees with angelum) esse: infinitive in indirect statement introduced by nesciebat (illum is accusative subject) |
| Et dixit illi: "Unde es, iuvenis?" |
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| Et dixit illi: "Ex filiis Israel, fratribus tuis, et veni huc, ut operer." |
Israel: Hebrew name (genitive) operer: subjunctive with ut |
| Et dixit illi Thobias: "Nosti viam, quae ducit in Mediam?" |
Thobias: Hebrew name (nominative) quae: relative pronoun, agreeing with viam in gender and number |
| Et ille dixit: "Utique, aliquotiens fui ibi et habeo notitiam et scio omnes vias |
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| et aliquotiens ibam in Mediam et manebam penes Gabael, fratrem nostrum, qui commoratur in Rages Mediae.”  |
Gabael: Hebrew name (agrees with fratrem) qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with Gabael in gender and number Rages: Hebrew name (locative) |
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