hOUTI AUTON ESTIN in the Beatitudes
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at mailhost.chi.ameritech.net
Fri Jul 10 12:59:44 EDT 1998
Friends,
I am reading through a booklet by Brad Young on _The Jewish Background
to the Lord's Prayer_ in which Young makes the claim that hOTI AUTON
ESTIN at Matt. 5:3 etc. should be seen as a partitive genitive and not
as a possessive. If true, the beatitudes containing this phrase would
seemingly mean "How blesssed are X, the Kingdom of God is comprised of
such as these". Any thoughts on this?
Yours,
Jeffrey Gibson
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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