Hebrews 2:13 ESOMAI PEPOIQWS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 20 12:30:23 EDT 1998


At 3:30 AM -0500 8/20/98, Steve Long wrote:
>I noticed the modern greek translates(?) this as: EGW QELW EXEI THN
>PEPOIQHSIN MOU EP AUTON, and I'm wondering if the perfect form after a
>future might function as a noun, like an infinitive does occasionally. "I
>shall have confidence in him" or something of that nature.

Is that the way you found it? Not QA ECW THN PEPOIQHSIN? I'm just a bit
surprised at the formulation. At any rate, I sort of think this is pretty
much what I was saying at the end of my post:

>>confident." Accordingly ESOMAI PEPOIQWS is more or less equivalent to an
>>intransitive PISTEUSW.

Carl W. Conrad
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