Mark 11:22 EXETE PISTIN QEOU

Paul F. Evans evans at wilmington.net
Sat Aug 29 22:16:18 EDT 1998


George or Carl,

Though the idea of a partitive genitive (if I have even expressed that
properly) has been discussed before in this forum, please give me a run down
once more so that I can get it in my mind!  I think that we can add the
genitive to Carl's comment about the complexity of the accusative in most
grammars.

Paul & Loala Evans
Wilmington First Pentecostal Holiness Church
E-mail: evans at wilmington.net
Web-page: http://wilmingtonfirst/localchurches/wilmington.net
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Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Mark 11:22 EXETE PISTIN QEOU


>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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