Hebrews 11:4

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jun 26 18:04:36 EDT 1999


At 3:43 PM -0500 6/26/99, Dennis M. Wells wrote:
>Hello B-Greekers,
>
>    I am presently working through Hebrews 11:4 to preach tomorrow (I
>know, but we had VBS this week) Nonetheless, I was wondering about the
>EINAI following the EMARTURHQH.  While I do not think it affects exegesis
>much, is the infinitive functioning as a direct object?
>
>    I think that the DIKAIOS is a predicate nominative.  is the EINAI
>making this emphatic or is it just a different way of formulating the
>sentence?  (by the way, I skimmed Wallace and the archives before posting
>this - even Lane's Word commentary wasn't much help)

It's really pretty straightforward EMARTURHQH EINAI DIKAIOS = DIKAIOS HN
hWS PISTEI EMARTURHQH; DIKAIOS is a predicate nominative and EINAI is
simply the infinitive of indirect statement after a passive introductory
verb: "he was attested by faith to be righteous" = "it was attested by
faith that he was righteous."


Carl W. Conrad
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