Philippians 1:8

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Thu Sep 16 13:39:40 EDT 1999


At 01:21 PM 9/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Greetings
>
>MARTUS GAR MOU hO QEOS hWS EPIPOQW PANTAS hUMAS EN SPLAGCNOIS CRISTOU 
>IHSOU.
>
>1. If MARTUS is a predicate nominative preceding an understood ESTIN whose 
>subject is hO QEOS, does this predicate nominative - verb - subject 
>construction fit Colwell's Rule?

Dont know this Colwell person (but then again I am not involved in lots of
these newfangled grammatical games which seem to intrigue the masses)  ;-)

>
>2. What is the force of the phrase EN SPLAGCNOIS?
>

"with the compassion of Christ Jesus".  As you can see, I take "en" with the
force of "with- alongside of, etc."

best,

Jim

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