84 JUAN MANUEL GRANADOS ROJAS least three possibilities attested by ancient writers 12 : “resetting broken bones ” 13, “restoration” 14 and “equipping” 15. Many authors have attempted to determine its meaning by looking at the NT usage of the related verb katartızw ; however, it might be more correct to find the sense of katar- ¥ tismon by studying carefully its use in the current context. ¥ The phrase prov ton katartismon cannot be isolated from the ù ù ¥ sequence of the three prepositional phrases. In order to determine the use of the first phrase in its context, it is necessary to examine the main verb of the sequence, as well as the purpose and meaning of the change of prepositions. This last issue has been long debated; so it shall be the first discussed. 1. The overlap of prov and eıv and the use of prov + accusative ¥ ß ¥ The preposition prov can be used with either the genitive, dative or ¥ accusative case. However in NT Greek it is almost always used with the accusative 16. Each grammar of NT Greek explains the preposition in dif- ferent ways 17 ; but its main senses are basically the same: spatial, temporal and relational. The spatial sense, which is widespread throughout the NT, indicates the place or the direction towards which the verbal action takes place 18. The temporal sense, which is less attested in NT, shows the duration – ‘to make adequate, to furnish completely, to cause to be fully qualified, ade- quacy’ ”. J.P. LOUW – E.A. NIDA, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testa- ment Based on Semantic Domains (New York 21989) 680. See H.G. LIDELL – R. SCOTT – H.S. JONES – R. MCKENZIE, Greek 12 English Lexicon (Oxford 91996) 910. Apollonius, Hippocratis de articulis commentarius, 11.21; 22.27; see 13 also 29.37 as “healing a limb”. See Pseudo-Galenus, Definitiones medicae, 19.461.7. Symmachus’ version of Isa 38,12. 14 Preparation and furnishing in PTebt 33:12; PRyl 127.8. 15 With genitive only in Acts 27,34; with dative only six times (always 16 local sense): Mark 5,11; Luke 19,37; John 18,16; 20,11.12; Rev 1,13. See BDF 240. See F. BLASS – A. DEBRUNNER – W. FUNK, A Greek Grammar of the 17 New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Cambridge 1961) 239.8; H.W. SMYTH, Greek Grammar Revised by G.M. MESSING) (Cambridge, MA 1984) 1965; M. ZERWICK, Graecitas biblica Novi Testamenti (SPIB; Roma 51966) 97-98; J.H. MOULTON, A Grammar of New Testament Greek, III (Edinburg 31908-1963) § 4; BAGD, 873-875; LIDDELL-SCOTT, 1496-1499. M.J. HARRIS, “Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament”, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (ed. C. BROWN) (Grand Rapids, MI 1975) 1171-1215. Usually after verbs of going, sending, motion in general, leading, saying 18 or speaking, asking and praying. BAGD, 874.