Luke 20:38
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 13 19:28:08 EDT 1999
At 1:32 PM -0500 8/13/99, Ray Clendenen wrote:
>Ray Clendenen at BSSBNOTES
>08/13/99 01:32 PM
>
>Anybody have some insight as to how to understand the syntax of this verse
>and how to translate it, especially pantes gar auto zosin? Thanks.
QEOS DE OUK ESTIN NEKRWN ALLA ZWNTWN, PANTES GAR AUTWi ZWSIN.
Jim West may be right in taking AUTWi as a true dative ("For all live
to/for him") but I think the alternative reading of AUTWi as instrumental
("For all live by means of Him") is worth considering.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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