Mark 11:22 EXETE PISTIN QEOU
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dalmatia at eburg.com
Tue Aug 25 10:40:06 EDT 1998
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> I also still think that QEOU has to be understood as an objective
> genitive and that ECETE here means "continue to grasp firmly, keep holding
> tight (your faith in God)."
The more I think about this construction, the more I like the
partitive idea. There is no article for QEOU, and while that is no
big evidence for a whole lot, it does suggest a generic reading, which
would not be the case were it to read TOU QEOU. The force of QEOU
would then become almost adverbial or adjectival [Godly]. The read,
on this approach, would then be: "Be having [maintain vigorously]
faith [that you have received] from God."
And as well I like the simplicity of the implicit 'that you have
received' modifying PISTIN. Is this eisegesis?
George
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