hORISQENTOS hUIU QEOU (Rom 1:4)

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 19 13:17:34 EST 1999





>From: "Carl W. Conrad" 

>Blahoslav Cicel wrote:

>> I dont know how to structure the text
>>
>>TOU hORISQENTOS hUIU QEOU EN DUNAMEI KATA PNEUMA hAGIWSUNHS EX
>>ANASTASEWS NEKRWN

>> in 4a I see two possibilities:
>>A': TOU hORISQENTOS hUIU QEOU
>>B':	EN DUNAMEI
>>C':		KATA PNEUMA hAGIWSUNHS
>>D':			EX ANASTASEWS NEKRWN
>>
>>or
>>A': TOU hORISQENTOS hUIU QEOU EN DUNAMEI
>>C':		KATA PNEUMA hAGIWSUNHS
>>B':	EX ANASTASEWS NEKRWN
>>
>>My question is: What is correct? and: Why?

>I would opt for your second arrangement--                          >the 
one that puts EN DUNAMEI on
>the same line with TOU hORISQENTOS hUIOU QEOU,                       
>for two basic reasons:
(a) structural: I think the parallelisms                              
>between (1) the two EK/EX phrases,
>and (2) the two KATA phrases is deliberate;

>(b) I think that EN DUNAMEI is essential to                          
>complete the meaning of TOU
>hORISQENTOS hUIOU QEOU:

I am wondering if it has to be either-or.  Could it not, being directly 
between them, apply to both?  I don't know just how it would diagram, 
but it certainly can be taken with either, and why not both??  

George


George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA

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