Eph 2:15

Paul Zellmer zellmer at cag.pworld.net.ph
Tue May 25 08:29:16 EDT 1999


Andrew, let me make another brief attempt.  Let's take the English
sentence, "Time changes the boy into a man."  I think you'll have no
problems seeing "the boy" as the direct object.  What is the function of
the prepositional phrase, "into a man"?  It's adverbial, giving the goal
of the action.  A similar function is being done in the Greek in Eph
2:15.

Diagramming?  The EIS phrase is placed as an adverbial modifier of
KTISHi, just like the EN phrase.  I know of no way to relate the EIS
phrase to the direct object (adjectivally).

A suggestion: you might want to check an English grammar to see how that
language handles such constructions.  I'll bet you'll find something
very similar to what I described above.

HTH (Hope this helps),

Paul

Andrew Bowman wrote:

>  I would like to thank all that contributed answers to my question
> regarding Eph. 2:15.  They have been informative.  Unfortunately, they
> have not addressed what I specifically wanted to know.  The phrase
> which we are dealing with is hINA TOUS DUO KTISHi EN AUTWi EIC hENA
> KAINON ANQROPWN.  TOUS DUO is definitely the direct object of KTISHi
> referring to what is being created.  EN AUTWi is"in himself (Christ)"
> modifying the verb explaining where the action is taking place, or how
> the action is taking place (some clarity or opinion here would be
> appreciated).  The main question that I have to how to grammatically
> link EIS ANQROPON to the rest of the sentence.  Is it modifying the
> verb, expressing "?" (I have no idea what it would be expressing), or
> is it modifying DUO and again I am not sure how is would be relating
> to it.  Paul Zellmer indicated that it is not likely that it would
> functioning as the direct object of the verb, which was my initial
> thought.  My reasoning is that the this is the result of the creation
> process that Christ is doing within himself, as God created man, So
> Christ is creating the new man.  I have a sense of what Paul is
> communicating through this passage, but I would like to be very
> precise both in diagramming it grammatically, and discussing it
> technically in my paper.  Any help answer these two questions would be
> greatly appreciated.  Thanks,  Andrew Bowman.



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