Paul Danove 68 o{tan de; ajkouvshte polevmou~ kai; ajkoa;~ polevmwn, mh; qroei`sqe when you hear about wars and reports of wars, don’t be alarmed (Mark 13:7). In this usage both speaker and non-speaker objects [± speaker] appear in the accusative, and the verb usually is translated «hear about» or «hear of» but may have the translation, «hear that,» when a noun phrase object is modified by a participle 5: ina ajkouvw ta; ejma; tevkna ejn th`/ ajlhqeiva/ peripatou`nta { so that I may hear that my children are walking in the truth (3 John 4). 1.2.2. Clausal Objects [121 occurrences] The topic construction also appears with four types of clausal objects: oti clauses, infinitive with subject accusative phrases, relative or correla- { tive clauses, and the eij interrogative clause. The object o{ti clause has 109 occurrences 6: hkousen jIhsou~ o{ti ejxevbalon aujto;n e[xw... [ Jesus heard that they threw him out.... (John 9:35a). The object infinitive with subject accusative phrase appears three times and receives the translation, «hear that» or «hear about 7:» dia; tou'to uJphnthsen aujtw'/ oJ o[clo", o{ti h[kousan tou'to aujto;n pepoihkenai to; shmei'on v Therefore the crowd met him because they heard that he had done this sign. (John 12:18). 5 Object noun phrases [+ speaker] (active, indirect): 2 Macc 11:24; 3 Macc 4:12; Wis 11:13]; Eph 4:21; 2 Thess 3:11; and 3 John 4. 6 Object o{ti clauses (indirect): Gen 14:14; 29:33; 34:5; 39:15, 18; 42:2; 43:25; Num 14:13, 14; 22:36; Josh 2:10; 5:1; 9:16; 10:1; Judg 20:3; Ruth 1:6; 1 Sam 7:7; 14:22; 22:6; 23:10; 25:4; 25:7, 39 [A]; 2 Sam 4:1; 5:17; 8:9; 11:26; 16:21; 1 Kgs 1:11; 5:1; 11:21; 12:20, 24d; 20:16; 2 Kgs 3:21; 5:8; 19:8; 20:12; 25:23; 1 Chr 14:8; 18:9; 2 Chr 20:29; 2 Esdr 4:1; 13:33; 14:1, 9; Esth 4:17m; Tob 7:7; 1 Macc 3:13; 5:1; 6:1, 55; 9:1; 10:8, 19; 11:63; 12:24, 28, 34; 13:1; 14:2, 16, 17, 40; 4 Macc 4:22; Zech 8:23; Isa 37:8, 9; 39:1; Jer 45:7, 25; 47:7, 11; Lam 1:21; Dan 5:14, 16; Matt 2:22; 4:12; 5:21, 27, 33, 38, 43; 20:30; 22:34; Mark 6:55; 10:47; 16:11; Luke 1:58; John 4:1, 47; 9:35a; 11:6, 20; 12:12, 34; 14:28; 21:7; Acts 8:14; 9:38; 11:1; 15:24; 16:38; 19:26; 21:22; 22:2; Gal 1:23; Phil 2:26; 1 John 2:18. 7 Object infinitive with subject accusative phrases (active, indirect): Tob 6:14; John 12:18; 1 Cor 11:18). R. W. Funk, A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek (Missoula: University of Montana Press, 1973), 462-463, considers such phrases to be the semantic equivalents of a subordinate clause introduced by o{ti.