James 5:13

Subject: James 5:13-19 Mark Markham markhamm at topsurf.com
Mon Jan 3 09:19:20 EST 2000

John 1:2 ‘The same’ or ‘He’ Ign. Eph. 15:3 Subject: James 5:13-19Dear all,I am having a mixed reaction concerning the use of several words and the context of this passage. Please put aside the theological implications here without much bias help me see what the Greek says.Sickness. Is it physical or spiritual emotional. I have seen the word used both ways. Healing: ditto but not so closely divided. Anoint. There appears to be two words use to describe anointing in the NT. What is the dif? Is it significant? My gut reaction is James is talking about physical mistreatment and perhaps spiritual defeat akin to weariness or depression ( i.e. sin). This seems to be the scope of the healing that involves the elders, oil, prayer, and confession. I know that is not very mystical but Is this a straight forward understanding of the text?Thanks,Mark MarkhamHeidelberg, Germany————– next part ————–An HTML attachment was scrubbed…URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail//attachments/20000103/9e0b8ccb/attachment.html

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Subject: James 5:13-19 dixonps at juno.com dixonps at juno.com
Mon Jan 3 12:40:30 EST 2000

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Ign. Eph. 15:3 On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:19:20 +0100 “Mark Markham” <markhamm at topsurf.com>writes:> Subject: James 5:13-19> > Dear all,> I am having a mixed reaction concerning the use of several words and > the context of this passage. Please put aside the theological > implications here without much bias help me see what the Greek says.> > Sickness. Is it physical or spiritual emotional. I have seen the > word used both ways. > > Healing: ditto but not so closely divided. > > Anoint. There appears to be two words use to describe anointing in > the NT. What is the dif? Is it significant? > > My gut reaction is James is talking about physical mistreatment and > perhaps spiritual defeat akin to weariness or depression ( i.e. > sin). This seems to be the scope of the healing that involves the > elders, oil, prayer, and confession. I know that is not very > mystical but Is this a straight forward understanding of the text?The contrast between ASQENEI (v. 14) and KAN hAMARTIAS Hi PEPOIHKWSAFEQHSETAI AUTWi (V. 15) seems to suggest a physical illness notnecessarilycaused by the sin of the individual. What I find interesting is hH EUCH THS PISTEWS. What does this mean? Whatis the significance of the definite article? Does the definite article refer us back to the faithful instructionsfollowed in thepreceding verse? That would seem to poise some problems. Or, better,does the article refer us back to the faith taught in the Lord’s Prayer, “ThyKingdomcome, Thy will be done,” and practiced by Christ Himself in the Garden,”nevertheless,not My will, but Thine be done,” the idea being that such prayer, if itis God’s will, will indeed be answered and the sick healed?Paul Dixon

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Subject: James 5:13-19 Daniel L Christiansen dlc at multnomah.edu
Tue Jan 4 22:50:46 EST 2000

Fw: Please don’t cite the whole thread! Jude 7 TOV hOMOION TRPON I have not seen any responses to this post: perhaps I have just missedthem. However, I would like to address a few of the issues raised here.> Mark Markham wrote:> Subject: James 5:13-19> Dear all,> I am having a mixed reaction concerning the use of several words and> the context of this passage. Please put aside the theological> implications here without much bias help me see what the Greek says.First of all, I think it should be noted that, in certain instances,decisions regarding meaning cannot be made in the absence of one’stheology/philosophy. This is so, due to the semantic range of the termsinvolved. As you have stated, you have seen the word “used both ways.” When we try defining what a term “means,” we go to clear context. Whenthe context is not entirely clear, we really have to weigh theprobabilities through our other bases of understanding. Having said all this(which I think is probably obvious), let me say that I believe thispassage may be one of the troublesome ones.> Sickness. Is it physical or spiritual emotional. I have seen the word> used both ways.You don’t identify the Greek terms to which you refer: there aremultiple possibilities in the passage. 1) KAKOPAQEI occurs 4x in LXX/5in GNT. As far as I can see, it always refers to some sort of physicaltoil or the weariness produced thereby. 2) ASQENEI occurs far moreoften, at 78 in LXX/91 in GNT. The great majority of times, the contextseems to point clearly to physical weakness or sickness. The referencesto spiritual weakness appear to me to be fairly well marked out. 3)KAMNONTA is found 6x in LXX/2x in GNT. Most of these uses have physicalsickness or weariness in view. The one LXX citation which is referringto emotional weariness is Job 10:1; the occurrence in Hebrews 12:3 alsorefers to emotional/spiritual weariness. However, it is worthy of notethat both the Hebrews and Job citations pair the verb with hH YUCH;thus, the emotional focus really stems from the noun, and not from theverb itself.So, while the idea of spiritual or emotional sickness is certainlywithin the semantic range of each of these terms, it seems to me thatthe more common meaning is related to physical problems. For theemotional focus to be argued, I would certainly want to see a contextual basis.> Healing: ditto but not so closely divided.Again, you have not identified the Greek term(s) in question. I amgoing to hazard a guess, that it is SWSEI in verse 15. SWZW is one ofthose “problem children” for the Church. It has been translated by the”save/salvation” word-group; this word-group has then been invested withsuch theological importance, that it is difficult for most readers tosee anything but eschatological implications in the verses where itappears. In truth, SWZW is ageneral term meaning something like”rescue.” The question, then, is what is the object being rescued from?Given that this is the case with SWZW, it is clear that your questionregarding “healing” cannot be answered until the question of “sickness”is first dealt with. > Anoint. There appears to be two words use to describe anointing in the> NT. What is the dif? Is it significant?I am going to leave this one alone. Too manytheological/denominational minefields lie on this path :)> > My gut reaction is James is talking about physical mistreatment and> perhaps spiritual defeat akin to weariness or depression ( i.e. sin).> This seems to be the scope of the healing that involves the elders,> oil, prayer, and confession. I know that is not very mystical but Is> this a straight forward understanding of the text?As far as which reading would be more mystical, I don’t think that isat all important. To a Christian, all of life is mystical, since it isgiven, regiven, and empowered by the invisible resurrected Christ. But Iwould think that a straightforward reading would include physicalsickness, and physical healing (rescue from sickness). That, due to”straightforward” being synonymous with “most common.”Dan– Daniel L. ChristiansenDepartment of BibleMultnomah Bible College8435 NE Glisan StreetPortland, OR 97220(Also Portland Bible College, Prof of Biblical Languages)e-mail: dlc at multnomah.edu

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Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Mon Jan 3 11:22:01 EST 2000

 

Subject: James 5:13-19 Ign. Eph. 15:3 At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EXhWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before our face(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…” Butthen what do you make of the plural relative hWN following thepreposition EX?– Bart Ehrman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Subject: James 5:13-19Ign. Eph. 15:3

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jan 3 12:14:48 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Subject: James 5:13-19 At 11:22 AM -0500 1/3/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EX>hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before our face>(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…” But>then what do you make of the plural relative hWN following the>preposition EX?I love these puzzles you keep throwing at us. One thought that comes to mymind immediately is that EX hWN is one of those prepositional phrasesintroducing a clause wherein antecedent is implicitly squeezed into therelative, so that we should understand something like EKEINA/TAUTA EX hWNDIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON, which could conceivably be the subject of FANHSETAIPRO PROSWPOU hHMWN; hence: “Those factors in consequence of which werightly love him will be manifested before us.” i.e. perhaps the subject ofFANHSETAI is NOT Christ but rather the relative clause as a substantive.(Well, it seemed worth trying …)Alternatively (I obviously don’t have the larger context PRO PROSWPOU MOU),is there anything in the preceding text that could provide an antecedent tohWN? It could be neuter plural even if relatively vague.Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityOne Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3Subject: James 5:13-19

Ign. Eph. 15:3 James Ernest jernest at hendrickson.com
Mon Jan 3 12:53:34 EST 2000

 

Subject: James 5:13-19 “Enemy” as gloss for EXQROS (and Sin, Nun, Aleph) Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) asrough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historicalidentify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent? Idon’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badlyif I’m just being dumb here…. I would try checking BDF and maybe somesearches in electronic texts.James Ernest—–Original Message—–From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:15 PMTo: Biblical GreekCc: Biblical GreekSubject: Re: Ign. Eph. 15:3At 11:22 AM -0500 1/3/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN,EX>hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before ourface>(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…”But>then what do you make of the plural relative hWN following the>preposition EX?I love these puzzles you keep throwing at us. One thought that comes tomymind immediately is that EX hWN is one of those prepositional phrasesintroducing a clause wherein antecedent is implicitly squeezed into therelative, so that we should understand something like EKEINA/TAUTA EXhWNDIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON, which could conceivably be the subject ofFANHSETAIPRO PROSWPOU hHMWN; hence: “Those factors in consequence of which werightly love him will be manifested before us.” i.e. perhaps the subjectofFANHSETAI is NOT Christ but rather the relative clause as a substantive.(Well, it seemed worth trying …)Alternatively (I obviously don’t have the larger context PRO PROSWPOUMOU),is there anything in the preceding text that could provide an antecedenttohWN? It could be neuter plural even if relatively vague.Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityOne Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/— home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/You are currently subscribed to as: jernest at hendrickson.comTo unsubscribe, forward this message to$subst(‘Email.Unsub’)To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu

 

Subject: James 5:13-19″Enemy” as gloss for EXQROS (and Sin, Nun, Aleph)

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Alex / Ali alexali at surf.net.au
Tue Jan 4 07:34:17 EST 2000

 

The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Ign. Eph. 15:3 (fwd) Bart Ehrman asked about Ign. Eph. 15:3 where “we read FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOUhMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON.”Bart,Like Carl, I enjoy your queries. I think James Ernest was right in takingEX hWN as a “rough equivalent for ‘therefore’ “. The DIKAIWS and AGAPWMENare interesting, too. Without knowing the context, I’d be inclined to takethe AGAPWMEN as (hortatory) subjunctive rather than indicative, and wonderif there’s justification in taking DIKAIWS not so much as “in a just manner”but (roughly) “as is right/fitting”, suggesting a gloss such as “so, as isright, let us love him”.Alex HopkinsMelbourne, AustraliaPS Was there no digest for January 02, 2000? None received here.

 

The Purpose of Syntactical CategoriesIgn. Eph. 15:3 (fwd)

Ign. Eph. 15:3 (fwd) Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:28:12 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3 The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Glad *you* love them. 🙂 Responses seriatim, below.On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Carl W. Conrad wrote:> At 11:22 AM -0500 1/3/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> > At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EX> >hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before our face> >(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…” But> >then what do you make of the plural relative hWN following the> >preposition EX?> > I love these puzzles you keep throwing at us. One thought that comes to my> mind immediately is that EX hWN is one of those prepositional phrases> introducing a clause wherein antecedent is implicitly squeezed into the> relative, so that we should understand something like EKEINA/TAUTA EX hWN> DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON, which could conceivably be the subject of FANHSETAI> PRO PROSWPOU hHMWN; hence: “Those factors in consequence of which we> rightly love him will be manifested before us.” i.e. perhaps the subject of> FANHSETAI is NOT Christ but rather the relative clause as a substantive.> (Well, it seemed worth trying …) Yes, this was the direction I was heading as well, understanding therelative to contain an implied demonstrative. But I thought it wouldprobably be looking forward instead of back in the sentence; there’salready a clear subject for FANHSETAI — actually two possibly clearsubjects (!). The preceding sentence is “Let us therefore do all thingswhile (because?) he is dwelling in us, that we might be his temples and hemight be our God in us, which very thing he is.” KAI FANHSEAI PROPROSWPOU hHMWN…. So the subject is either “God” (He will be manifestto us) or the verb is impersonal (“It/This will be made clear tous…). It would seem to be stretching it to have the implieddemonstrative in EX hWN be the subject. My initial impulse had been to take the demonstrative to refer tothings “done uprightly” as acts of love, so that the clause EX hWN DIKAIWSAGAPWMMEN AUTON would loosely be rendered something like “by the uprightdeeds that we do out of love for him” Sometimes this seems to get thesense right for me; other times not. Problems with it: it takes DIKAIWSnot with AGAPWMEN, as one would expect, but with some kind of implied verb(“do”) relating to the EX hWN; and it would leave the relationship of thatverb to AGAPWMEN uncertain. (This means, I think, that it has difficultyaccounting for the relationship of just about all the words in the clause:-)) So I don’t know if this works or not. Further reflections?> > Alternatively (I obviously don’t have the larger context PRO PROSWPOU MOU),> is there anything in the preceding text that could provide an antecedent to> hWN? It could be neuter plural even if relatively vague.> The only plurals (apart from “us”) in the preceding (quoted above) are”all things” (let us do all things) and “temples” (that we might be histemples); both seem too remote to be of much use. Thanks for your thoughts. Any others would be welcome!– BartBart D. EhrmanUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> > Carl W. Conrad> Department of Classics/Washington University> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/>

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3The Purpose of Syntactical Categories

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:37:23 EST 2000

 

The Purpose of Syntactical Categories The Purpose of Syntactical Categories It appears to be taken this way by other translators, but thecommentators pass over it without a note (making me think that there’ssomething obvious here that I’m missing), and I haven’t been able to findanything quite like it anywhere (which probably means it’s all over themap). If you do run across a clear parallel, let me know. (There’ssomething kind of *similar* in the preceding chapter, btw: “Thus who claimto belong to Christ will be seen through the things they do” DI hWNPRASSOUSIN OFQHSONTiAI). Thanks,– BartBart D. EhrmanUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillOn Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent? I> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly> if I’m just being dumb here…. I would try checking BDF and maybe some> searches in electronic texts.> > James Ernest> > > —–Original Message—–> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:15 PM> To: Biblical Greek> Cc: Biblical Greek> Subject: Re: Ign. Eph. 15:3> > > At 11:22 AM -0500 1/3/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> > At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN,> EX> >hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before our> face> >(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…”> But> >then what do you make of the plural relative hWN following the> >preposition EX?> > I love these puzzles you keep throwing at us. One thought that comes to> my> mind immediately is that EX hWN is one of those prepositional phrases> introducing a clause wherein antecedent is implicitly squeezed into the> relative, so that we should understand something like EKEINA/TAUTA EX> hWN> DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON, which could conceivably be the subject of> FANHSETAI> PRO PROSWPOU hHMWN; hence: “Those factors in consequence of which we> rightly love him will be manifested before us.” i.e. perhaps the subject> of> FANHSETAI is NOT Christ but rather the relative clause as a substantive.> (Well, it seemed worth trying …)> > Alternatively (I obviously don’t have the larger context PRO PROSWPOU> MOU),> is there anything in the preceding text that could provide an antecedent> to> hWN? It could be neuter plural even if relatively vague.> > > Carl W. Conrad> Department of Classics/Washington University> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/> > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: jernest at hendrickson.com> To unsubscribe, forward this message to> $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: behrman at email.unc.edu> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > >

 

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Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:40:57 EST 2000

 

The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? James, Well, a reader response critic would be having a field day with how I’mhandling my e-mail this morning — seeing words that I expect to seeinstead of the ones staring me in the face….. I don’t know of anyonetaking EX hWN as “therefore,” but people often *do* take it as”because” (“out of such things” = because?). — BartBart EhrmanUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillOn Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent? I> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly> if I’m just being dumb here…. I would try checking BDF and maybe some> searches in electronic texts.> > James Ernest> > > —–Original Message—–> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:15 PM> To: Biblical Greek> Cc: Biblical Greek> Subject: Re: Ign. Eph. 15:3> > > At 11:22 AM -0500 1/3/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> > At the end of Ign. Eph. 15:3 we ready FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN,> EX> >hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON. “He/It will be made manifest before our> face> >(i.e., he will be revealed to us OR it will be made clear to us)…”> But> >then what do you make of the plural relative hWN following the> >preposition EX?> > I love these puzzles you keep throwing at us. One thought that comes to> my> mind immediately is that EX hWN is one of those prepositional phrases> introducing a clause wherein antecedent is implicitly squeezed into the> relative, so that we should understand something like EKEINA/TAUTA EX> hWN> DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON, which could conceivably be the subject of> FANHSETAI> PRO PROSWPOU hHMWN; hence: “Those factors in consequence of which we> rightly love him will be manifested before us.” i.e. perhaps the subject> of> FANHSETAI is NOT Christ but rather the relative clause as a substantive.> (Well, it seemed worth trying …)> > Alternatively (I obviously don’t have the larger context PRO PROSWPOU> MOU),> is there anything in the preceding text that could provide an antecedent> to> hWN? It could be neuter plural even if relatively vague.> > > Carl W. Conrad> Department of Classics/Washington University> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/> > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: jernest at hendrickson.com> To unsubscribe, forward this message to> $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: behrman at email.unc.edu> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > >

 

The Purpose of Syntactical CategoriesTemple and New world translation of holy scriptures?

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:45:03 EST 2000

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? The Purpose of Syntactical Categories OK, thanks. This might work if the sentence was repunctuated with afull stop after hMWN and the FANHSETAI clause is taken with the precedingsentence. Then it would be something like … and he is our God in us,which very thing both is and will be manifest before us. For thesereasons, let us love him in an upright way.” Do you know of any parallels to this usage?– Bart EhrmanOn Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Alex / Ali wrote:> Bart Ehrman asked about Ign. Eph. 15:3 where “we read FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU> hMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON.”> > Bart,> > Like Carl, I enjoy your queries. I think James Ernest was right in taking> EX hWN as a “rough equivalent for ‘therefore’ “. The DIKAIWS and AGAPWMEN> are interesting, too. Without knowing the context, I’d be inclined to take> the AGAPWMEN as (hortatory) subjunctive rather than indicative, and wonder> if there’s justification in taking DIKAIWS not so much as “in a just manner”> but (roughly) “as is right/fitting”, suggesting a gloss such as “so, as is> right, let us love him”.> > Alex Hopkins> Melbourne, Australia> > PS Was there no digest for January 02, 2000? None received here.> > > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: behrman at email.unc.edu> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > >

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?The Purpose of Syntactical Categories

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:48:25 EST 2000

 

The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Digest for January 2, 2000 I should add here, for what it’s worth, that when I saw James Ernest’s noteon this I felt instinctively that he was right. Of course, as Bart says,one would like to know something is right by something stronger thaninstinct. What occurred to me is that DI’ hWN is probably one of thosephrases comparable to Latin QUAPROPTER or QUAMOBREM or DE QUA CAUSA whichtend to become single words or phrases with a single sense, all synonymousin the sense of “therefore.” There are so many such compounds; I recall aninteresting thread a couple years back on hINATI = hINA TI.At 8:37 AM -0500 1/4/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> It appears to be taken this way by other translators, but the>commentators pass over it without a note (making me think that there’s>something obvious here that I’m missing), and I haven’t been able to find>anything quite like it anywhere (which probably means it’s all over the>map). If you do run across a clear parallel, let me know. (There’s>something kind of *similar* in the preceding chapter, btw: “Thus who claim>to belong to Christ will be seen through the things they do” DI hWN>PRASSOUSIN OFQHSONTiAI).> > Thanks,> >— Bart> >Bart D. Ehrman>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> > > >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> >> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as>> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical>> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent? I>> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly>> if I’m just being dumb here…. I would try checking BDF and maybe some>> searches in electronic texts.Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityOne Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

 

The Purpose of Syntactical CategoriesDigest for January 2, 2000

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Bill Ross wross at farmerstel.com
Tue Jan 4 10:00:26 EST 2000

 

Digest for January 2, 2000 The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Personally, when Paul uses a different construction I don’t say to myself”he just meant the same thing as if he had said…” because if he had wantedto say … he would have said …. and so I look for what might be a subtlebut profound difference.For an inquiry into a very profound difference, look at the similar sectionin Romans 5:12Romans 5:12DIA TOUTO WSPER DI ENOS ANQRWPOU H AMARTIA EIS TON KOSMONEISHLQEN KAI DIA THS AMARTIAS O QANATOS KAI OUTWS EIS PANTAS ANQRWPOUS OQANATOS DIHLQEN ****EF W**** PANTES HMARTON (breathing marks omitted)The words EF hW are commonly translated “because.” I personally object tothis. In the same sentence Paul uses DIA for that purpose. The words areliterally “upon which” as in Acts 7:33:Acts 7:33 EIPEN DE AUTW O KURIOS LUSON TO UPODHMA TWN PODWN SOU O GAR TOPOS****EF W**** ESTHKAS GH AGIA ESTINThis leads me to the conclusion that, to Paul, the first phrase is theantecedent of the second, not the result. That is “all died, upon which [EFW] all sinned” not “all died, because [DIA] all sinned”Bill RossTo download John 1:1-3 in Koine set to music, go to the download page at:http://members.xoom.com/woundedego

 

Digest for January 2, 2000The Purpose of Syntactical Categories

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bill Rodgers billfred at erols.com
Tue Jan 4 12:08:25 EST 2000

 

The Purpose of Syntactical Categories The Epistolary Plural in 1 John 1:4? Bart and Carl:  I would like to make two points:l.  You may well be right  about hINATI.    This is certainly what has happened withGIATI in modern Greek.2.  But I think I might still read it another way.  The full sentence reads:  PANTAOUN POIWMEN WS AUTOU EN hMIN KATOIKOUNTOS, hINA WMEN AUTOU NAOI KAI AUTOS EN hMINQEOS hMWN, OPER KAI ESTIN KAI FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMENAUTON.I would translate:  “Since he dwells within us, let us do all things so that we maybe his temples and he may be our God within us, and since he is and will be presentbefore us, by these means let us rightly love him.”I see “PANTA” as the antecedent to “EX hWN,”  and read both POIWMEN AND AGAPWMEN ashortatory.Bill Rodgers “Carl W. Conrad” wrote:> I should add here, for what it’s worth, that when I saw James Ernest’s note> on this I felt instinctively that he was right. Of course, as Bart says,> one would like to know something is right by something stronger than> instinct. What occurred to me is that DI’ hWN is probably one of those> phrases comparable to Latin QUAPROPTER or QUAMOBREM or DE QUA CAUSA which> tend to become single words or phrases with a single sense, all synonymous> in the sense of “therefore.” There are so many such compounds; I recall an> interesting thread a couple years back on hINATI = hINA TI.> > At 8:37 AM -0500 1/4/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> >   It appears to be taken this way by other translators, but the> >commentators pass over it without a note (making me think that there’s> >something obvious here that I’m missing), and I haven’t been able to find> >anything quite like it anywhere (which probably means it’s all over the> >map).  If you do run across a clear parallel, let me know.  (There’s> >something kind of *similar* in the preceding chapter, btw: “Thus who claim> >to belong to Christ will be seen through the things they do” DI hWN> >PRASSOUSIN OFQHSONTiAI).> >> >   Thanks,> >> >– Bart> >> >Bart D. Ehrman> >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> >> >> >> >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> >> >> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as> >> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical> >> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent?  I> >> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly> >> if I’m just being dumb here….  I would try checking BDF and maybe some> >> searches in electronic texts.> > Carl W. Conrad> Department of Classics/Washington University> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/> > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: billfred at erols.com> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu————– next part ————–A non-text attachment was scrubbed…Name: billfred.vcfType: text/x-vcardSize: 138 bytesDesc: Card for Bill RodgersUrl : http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail//attachments/20000104/cc000500/attachment.vcf

 

The Purpose of Syntactical CategoriesThe Epistolary Plural in 1 John 1:4?

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 12:16:29 EST 2000

 

The Epistolary Plural in 1 John 1:4? Ign. Eph. 15:3 Thanks for the suggestion! So are you taking hOPER to mean “since”?– Bart Ehrman University of North Carolina at Chapel HillOn Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bill Rodgers wrote:> Bart and Carl:  I would like to make two points:> > l.  You may well be right  about hINATI.    This is certainly what has happened with> GIATI in modern Greek.> > 2.  But I think I might still read it another way.  The full sentence reads:  PANTA> OUN POIWMEN WS AUTOU EN hMIN KATOIKOUNTOS, hINA WMEN AUTOU NAOI KAI AUTOS EN hMIN> QEOS hMWN, OPER KAI ESTIN KAI FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN> AUTON.> > I would translate: “Since he dwells within us, let us do all things so> that we may be his temples and he may be our God within us, and since> he is and will be present before us, by these means let us rightly> love him.”> > I see “PANTA” as the antecedent to “EX hWN,”  and read both POIWMEN AND AGAPWMEN as> hortatory.> > Bill Rodgers>  > > “Carl W. Conrad” wrote:> > > I should add here, for what it’s worth, that when I saw James Ernest’s note> > on this I felt instinctively that he was right. Of course, as Bart says,> > one would like to know something is right by something stronger than> > instinct. What occurred to me is that DI’ hWN is probably one of those> > phrases comparable to Latin QUAPROPTER or QUAMOBREM or DE QUA CAUSA which> > tend to become single words or phrases with a single sense, all synonymous> > in the sense of “therefore.” There are so many such compounds; I recall an> > interesting thread a couple years back on hINATI = hINA TI.> >> > At 8:37 AM -0500 1/4/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> > >   It appears to be taken this way by other translators, but the> > >commentators pass over it without a note (making me think that there’s> > >something obvious here that I’m missing), and I haven’t been able to find> > >anything quite like it anywhere (which probably means it’s all over the> > >map).  If you do run across a clear parallel, let me know.  (There’s> > >something kind of *similar* in the preceding chapter, btw: “Thus who claim> > >to belong to Christ will be seen through the things they do” DI hWN> > >PRASSOUSIN OFQHSONTiAI).> > >> > >   Thanks,> > >> > >– Bart> > >> > >Bart D. Ehrman> > >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> > >> > >> > >> > >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> > >> > >> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as> > >> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical> > >> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent?  I> > >> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly> > >> if I’m just being dumb here….  I would try checking BDF and maybe some> > >> searches in electronic texts.> >> > Carl W. Conrad> > Department of Classics/Washington University> > One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> > Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> > cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> > WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/> >> > —> > home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> > You are currently subscribed to as: billfred at erols.com> > To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave–389J at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu>

 

The Epistolary Plural in 1 John 1:4?Ign. Eph. 15:3

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 4 12:17:17 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 At 9:00 AM -0600 1/4/00, Bill Ross wrote:>Personally, when Paul uses a different construction I don’t say to myself>“he just meant the same thing as if he had said…” because if he had wanted>to say … he would have said …. and so I look for what might be a subtle>but profound difference.Bill, I don’t want to say nor do I mean that you’re wrong about this, but Ido think you ought to consider an alternative to what you’re assertinghere. Do YOU, in writing an e-mail or in conversation, sometimes say “since…” and sometimes say “because …” without meaning any significantdifference whatsoever? I think it’s worth taking into account that, whileparts of Paul’s letters certainly are composed with painstaking rhetoricalintricacy, large parts of them are really formulated in very colloquiallanguage. If you EXPECT to find a subtle but profound difference in meaningin every exercise of an option for a different “synonym” you may very wellfind it because you’re expecting it, even if it isn’t there. So what I’mcautioning against here is the all too facile ASSUMPTION that differentphrasing means a profoundly different sense.Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityOne Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 12:19:23 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 The Purpose of Syntactical Categories Thanks for the comment. Seems that EF hW has its own problems (i.e.,apart from EX nWN); I should think that context would affect how it’s tobe translated in each instance. What you understand your translation ofRom. 5:12 to *mean*? Also, how would you then translate Ign. Eph. 15:3?– Bart Ehrman University of North Carolina at Chapel HillOn Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bill Ross wrote:> Personally, when Paul uses a different construction I don’t say to myself> “he just meant the same thing as if he had said…” because if he had wanted> to say … he would have said …. and so I look for what might be a subtle> but profound difference.> > For an inquiry into a very profound difference, look at the similar section> in Romans 5:12> > Romans 5:12DIA TOUTO WSPER DI ENOS ANQRWPOU H AMARTIA EIS TON KOSMON> EISHLQEN KAI DIA THS AMARTIAS O QANATOS KAI OUTWS EIS PANTAS ANQRWPOUS O> QANATOS DIHLQEN ****EF W**** PANTES HMARTON (breathing marks omitted)> > The words EF hW are commonly translated “because.” I personally object to> this. In the same sentence Paul uses DIA for that purpose. The words are> literally “upon which” as in Acts 7:33:> > Acts 7:33 EIPEN DE AUTW O KURIOS LUSON TO UPODHMA TWN PODWN SOU O GAR TOPOS> ****EF W**** ESTHKAS GH AGIA ESTIN> > This leads me to the conclusion that, to Paul, the first phrase is the> antecedent of the second, not the result. That is “all died, upon which [EF> W] all sinned” not “all died, because [DIA] all sinned”> > Bill Ross> To download John 1:1-3 in Koine set to music, go to the download page at:> http://members.xoom.com/woundedego> > > —> home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> You are currently subscribed to as: behrman at email.unc.edu> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> > >

 

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Ign. Eph. 15:3 Bill Rodgers billfred at erols.com
Tue Jan 4 13:02:36 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Bart:  I am taking hOPER (I see I slipped in the transliteration)  as “indeed” and readingit with the    KAI ESTIN.      A more literal reading of the three words would be “andwhich he indeed is…”  I think the hOPER is used to intensify the ESTIN.BillBart Ehrman wrote:>    Thanks for the suggestion!  So are you taking hOPER to mean “since”?> > — Bart Ehrman>    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bill Rodgers wrote:> > > Bart and Carl:  I would like to make two points:> >> > l.  You may well be right  about hINATI.    This is certainly what has happened with> > GIATI in modern Greek.> >> > 2.  But I think I might still read it another way.  The full sentence reads:  PANTA> > OUN POIWMEN WS AUTOU EN hMIN KATOIKOUNTOS, hINA WMEN AUTOU NAOI KAI AUTOS EN hMIN> > QEOS hMWN, OPER KAI ESTIN KAI FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU hMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN> > AUTON.> >> > I would translate: “Since he dwells within us, let us do all things so> > that we may be his temples and he may be our God within us, and since> > he is and will be present before us, by these means let us rightly> > love him.”> >> > I see “PANTA” as the antecedent to “EX hWN,”  and read both POIWMEN AND AGAPWMEN as> > hortatory.> >> > Bill Rodgers> >> >> > “Carl W. Conrad” wrote:> >> > > I should add here, for what it’s worth, that when I saw James Ernest’s note> > > on this I felt instinctively that he was right. Of course, as Bart says,> > > one would like to know something is right by something stronger than> > > instinct. What occurred to me is that DI’ hWN is probably one of those> > > phrases comparable to Latin QUAPROPTER or QUAMOBREM or DE QUA CAUSA which> > > tend to become single words or phrases with a single sense, all synonymous> > > in the sense of “therefore.” There are so many such compounds; I recall an> > > interesting thread a couple years back on hINATI = hINA TI.> > >> > > At 8:37 AM -0500 1/4/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:> > > >   It appears to be taken this way by other translators, but the> > > >commentators pass over it without a note (making me think that there’s> > > >something obvious here that I’m missing), and I haven’t been able to find> > > >anything quite like it anywhere (which probably means it’s all over the> > > >map).  If you do run across a clear parallel, let me know.  (There’s> > > >something kind of *similar* in the preceding chapter, btw: “Thus who claim> > > >to belong to Christ will be seen through the things they do” DI hWN> > > >PRASSOUSIN OFQHSONTiAI).> > > >> > > >   Thanks,> > > >> > > >– Bart> > > >> > > >Bart D. Ehrman> > > >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, James Ernest wrote:> > > >> > > >> Don’t koine texts commonly use phrase with hWN (? ex hwn, di hwn) as> > > >> rough equivalents for “therefore” without any concern for the historical> > > >> identify of hWN as a relative pronoun that should have an antecedent?  I> > > >> don’t have time to look this up properly, so don’t skewer me too badly> > > >> if I’m just being dumb here….  I would try checking BDF and maybe some> > > >> searches in electronic texts.> > >> > > Carl W. Conrad> > > Department of Classics/Washington University> > > One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018> > > Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649> > > cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> > > WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/> > >> > > —> > > home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/> > > You are currently subscribed to as: billfred at erols.com> > > To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)> > > To subscribe, send a message to subscribe- at franklin.oit.unc.edu> >————– next part ————–A non-text attachment was scrubbed…Name: billfred.vcfType: text/x-vcardSize: 138 bytesDesc: Card for Bill RodgersUrl : http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail//attachments/20000104/a0f8dfd9/attachment.vcf

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Bill Ross wross at farmerstel.com
Tue Jan 4 14:11:19 EST 2000

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 <Bill>…. and so I look for what might be a subtle but profound difference.<Carl>Bill, I don’t want to say nor do I mean that you’re wrong about this, but Ido think you ought to consider an alternative to what you’re assertinghere. Do YOU, in writing an e-mail or in conversation, sometimes say “since…” and sometimes say “because …” without meaning any significantdifference whatsoever?<Bill>Than you, Carl, for your balancing point, which certainly applies to manysituations where words are thoroughly interchangable. “Since” and “because”are indeed often used 100% synonymously with zero difference intended.On the other hand, DIA is so commonly used to mean “because” (ie: agency)that the sudden appearance of the words EF W (which appear only 4 times inthe NT) I feel demand that the reader suspect that there is a reason. Gliblyassuming that it is identical in meaning as “DIA” seem profoundly naive tome! Especially in the one verse in the NT that *seems to* be an explicitreference to “original sin.”And as I showed its usage in Acts 7:33, it need not be idiomatic at all.Bill Ross

 

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at mailhost.chi.ameritech.net
Tue Jan 4 14:47:55 EST 2000

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? Bill Ross wrote:> Bill, I don’t want to say nor do I mean that you’re wrong about this, but I> do think you ought to consider an alternative to what you’re asserting> here. Do YOU, in writing an e-mail or in conversation, sometimes say “since> …” and sometimes say “because …” without meaning any significant> difference whatsoever?> > <Bill>> Than you, Carl, for your balancing point, which certainly applies to many> situations where words are thoroughly interchangable. “Since” and “because”> are indeed often used 100% synonymously with zero difference intended.> > On the other hand, DIA is so commonly used to mean “because” (ie: agency)> that the sudden appearance of the words EF W (which appear only 4 times in> the NT) I feel demand that the reader suspect that there is a reason. Glibly> assuming that it is identical in meaning as “DIA” seem profoundly naive to> me! Especially in the one verse in the NT that *seems to* be an explicit> reference to “original sin.”> Bill,Given (a) that you haven’t taken into account here how DIA and EPH W areused inHellenistic literature outside the New Testament in your assertion aboutwhat theseterms can and cannot or do or do not mean , and (b) that you seem toimply that thesemantic range of a term used in any NT writing is to be determined byexamining onlythat term’s NT usage, I wonder whether your statement that anyone whosays DIA andEPH W are synonymous terms is naive and makes “glib” assumption, is notan instanceof petitio principii?> > And as I showed its usage in Acts 7:33, it need not be idiomatic at all.> Need not is not the same as is not. And without a full examination ofthe use of theterm in question in the culture in which NT writers operated and fromwhich theyderived the meanings of the words they used, I think your claim presumestoo much. SoI wonder whether you are not operating here from the assumption that theway Lukeuses the term is determinative for the way Paul uses it.Yours,Jeffrey Gibson–Jeffrey B. Gibson7423 N. Sheridan Road #2AChicago, Illinois 60626e-mail jgibson000 at ameritech.net

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?

Ign. Eph. 15:3, Romans 5:12 Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 4 15:36:43 EST 2000

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? At 1:11 PM -0600 1/4/00, Bill Ross wrote:><Bill>…. and so I look for what might be a subtle but profound difference.> ><Carl>>Bill, I don’t want to say nor do I mean that you’re wrong about this, but I>do think you ought to consider an alternative to what you’re asserting>here. Do YOU, in writing an e-mail or in conversation, sometimes say “since>…” and sometimes say “because …” without meaning any significant>difference whatsoever?> ><Bill>>Than you, Carl, for your balancing point, which certainly applies to many>situations where words are thoroughly interchangable. “Since” and “because”>are indeed often used 100% synonymously with zero difference intended.> >On the other hand, DIA is so commonly used to mean “because” (ie: agency)>that the sudden appearance of the words EF W (which appear only 4 times in>the NT) I feel demand that the reader suspect that there is a reason. Glibly>assuming that it is identical in meaning as “DIA” seem profoundly naive to>me! Especially in the one verse in the NT that *seems to* be an explicit>reference to “original sin.”> >And as I showed its usage in Acts 7:33, it need not be idiomatic at all.I’m going to come back to your original point in order to demonstrate moreprecisely what I meant–and this time I shall have to say that I do indeedthink that your argument is fallacious.You first wrote:>For an inquiry into a very profound difference, look at the similar section>in Romans 5:12> >Romans 5:12DIA TOUTO WSPER DI ENOS ANQRWPOU H AMARTIA EIS TON KOSMON>EISHLQEN KAI DIA THS AMARTIAS O QANATOS KAI OUTWS EIS PANTAS ANQRWPOUS O>QANATOS DIHLQEN ****EF W**** PANTES HMARTON (breathing marks omitted)> >The words EF hW are commonly translated “because.” I personally object to>this. In the same sentence Paul uses DIA for that purpose.In fact, however, DIA is not used so simply; DIA is used with TOUTO, TOUTOreferring to the proposition that Paul has just previously stated and DIATOUTO points backward to that proposition as the ground of what is nowbeing stated. So it’s “For this reason (or ‘because of this’), just asthrough one man sin entered in …” Although DIA may be used with arelative pronoun that has fused with it (e.g. DIO = DI’ hO = ‘therefore’),DIA doesn’t ever function by itself as a causal adverb meaning ‘because’but rather as a preposition with an object, here TOUTO, ‘because of this’>The words are literally “upon which” as in Acts 7:33:> >Acts 7:33 EIPEN DE AUTWi hO KURIOS: LUSON TO hUPODHMA TWN PODWN SOU, hO>GAR >TOPOS EF’ hWi hESTHKAS GH hAGIA ESTIEF’ hWi here is only superficially comparable to the adverbial conjunctivephrase EF’ hWi; here EPI is the preposition used with a locative dative”upon” and the hWi is in this instance a relative pronoun referring back tothe antecedent TOPOS.>This leads me to the conclusion that, to Paul, the first phrase is the>antecedent of the second, not the result. That is “all died, upon which [EF>W] all sinned” not “all died, because [DIA] all sinned”Here are the four GNT texts wherein EF’ hWi appears, in every one of whichthe prepositional phrase EF’ hWi may legitimately be translated “because”or “since”:Rom 5:12 DIA TOUTO hWSPER DI’ hENOS ANQRWPOU hH hAMARTIA EIS TON KOSMONEISHLQEN KAI DIA THS hAMAARTIAS hO QANATOS, KAI hOUTWS EIS PANTAS ANQRWPOUShO QANATOS DIHLQEN, EF’ hWi PANTES hHMARTON (“… because/since they haveall sinned”)2 COR 5:4 KAI GAR hOI ONTES EN TWi SKHNEI STENAZOMEN BAROUMENOI, EF’ HWi OUQELOMEN EKDUSASQAI ALL’ EPENDUSASQAI, hINA KATAPOQHi TO QNHTON hUPO THSZWHS. (“… because/since we don’t want to strip naked but rather to put onnew clothes …”)Phil 3:12 OUC’ hOTI HDH ELABON H HDH TETELEIWMAI, DIWKW DE EI KAI KATALABW,EF’ hWi KAI KATELHMFQHN hUPO CRISTOU [IHSOU]. (“… because/since I toohave been gripped firmly by Christ [Jesus].”)Phil 4:12 ECARHN DE EN KURIWi MEGALWS hOTI HDH POTE ANEQALETE TO hUPER EMOUFRONEIN, EF’ hWi KAI EFRONEITE, HKAIREISQE DE. (“… because/since you wereindeed anxious (about me) but your timing was bad.”)In sum, there’s all the difference in the world between DIA TOUTO and EF’hWi; the former means “for this reason” or “because of this” or”therefore”, while the latter means “because” or “since” and functions asan adverbial conjunction introducing the clause explaining the reason forwhat was just asserted.Carl W. ConradDepartment of Classics/Washington UniversityOne Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

 

Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?

Ign. Eph. 15:3 Alex / Ali alexali at surf.net.au
Wed Jan 5 09:13:02 EST 2000

 

THREAD CLOSED: Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures? Men Only Bart Ehrman asked about examples of the use of EX hWN.My quick search did not find an example in a sense near enough to thosesuggested; but M&M – see under hOS – has some interesting examples of hOSwith prepositions (one of EF’ hWi, which was also mentioned in the postingsof yesterday’s digest); there is an example of EX hOU glossed as”therefore”; M&M’s article on EK also contains material that may berelevant to you, perhaps especially the causal sense (which can beparalleled in the NT). If you need examples of EX hWN, the Duke Databank ofDocumentary Papyri, under Perseus, may help.Alex Hopkins

 

THREAD CLOSED: Temple and New world translation of holy scriptures?Men Only