THi ELEUQERIAi in Gal 5:1 DE NOVO

Eric Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Thu Jun 3 01:13:48 EDT 1999


The Expositor's Greek Testament suggests this for Galatians 4:31-5:1 
(Galatians translator/commentator is Frederic Rendall, who seems to be 
somewhat iconoclastic in his interpretations/translations):

"Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but Christ set us 
free with the freedom of the freewoman."

I wonder if another possible translation (along this same idea) would be:

"Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the handmaid, but [we are] 
children of the freewoman in (locative?) (or "by" - instrumental) the 
freedom [with which] Christ freed us."

What do you think? This is a totally different punctuation than is usually 
adopted in that it makes 5:1(a) a subordinate(?) clause of 4:31.



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