1thes 4:3

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Tue Dec 21 21:30:54 EST 1999


To: Rion K. Reece,

<< These seem to imply that hO hAGIASMOS is to define 'will' rather than 
God. Am I misunderstanding the Greek or the English? >>

It it possible to take hO hAGIASMOS as standing in apposition to TOUTO. And 
so one might translate (something like):

<< For this is God's will: (this is) your sanctification that you abstain 
from prostitution. >>

At first blush, one might be concerned about the lack of concord between 
the neuter TOUTO and the masculine hO hAGIASMOS, but (according to 
Robertson) the neuter TOUT' ESTIN is often used without much regard to the 
gender of its antecedent or predicate (411).

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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