Mark 11:22 EXETE PISTIN QEOU

dalmatia at eburg.com dalmatia at eburg.com
Mon Aug 24 17:04:43 EDT 1998


Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> 
> (1) QEOU probably should be understood as an "objective" genitive,
> indicating the complement of PISTIN considered as a verbal notion. When a
> noun modifies another noun, the only case it can go into is the genitive;
> we'd translate this as "faith IN God." I should add that structurally
> there's no difference between a "subjective" and an "objective"
> genitive--these are simply convenient terms to put a handle on what a
> genitive-case form is doing when attached to a noun that has a verbal
> notion. Here however, the phrase can hardly mean the faith that God has; it
> can only mean faith directed to/at God.

When I first read this, I simply translated it as "Be having God's
faith."  And I'm sticking with it because of the context of this
passage, which is a paean to the utter power of faith/belief, and is
showing us the quality of faith that is requisite for moving mountains
etc.  Ordinary human faith is just inadequate.  God's faith is not,
and is available to us...

George
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