1thes 4:3

Rion K. Reece yoshua at tky2.3web.ne.jp
Wed Dec 22 09:25:09 EST 1999




CEP7 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/21/1999 7:20:01 PM, yoshua at tky2.3web.ne.jp writes:
>
> << In 1Thessalonians 4:3, [TOUTA GAR ESTIN QELHMA TOU QEOU, hO hAGIASMOS
> hMWN, APEXESQAI hUMAS APO THS PORNEIAS] is hO hAGIASMOS hMWN further
> explaining QEOU, i.e. "God, the (one who is)your sanctification..."?
> Charles Powell wrote:
> hO hAGIASMOS is in apposition to  QELHMA, both being in the nominative case,
> while TOU QEOU is in the genitive. In order for the participle to be in
> apposition to TOU QEOU, it would have to be in the genitive case also.
>
> Rion Reece wrote:

Thank you for your reply!  Especially for being so fast.  I have to confess to
still being a little bit confused though...my Bibleworks program shows hAGIASMOS
as a noun, not a participle.  Is that wrong?

Thanks again,

Rion





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