Gal 2:20 - to the Son

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Sat Apr 29 17:58:12 EDT 2000


On Sat 29 Apr 2000 (03:12:46), suedaleg at aol.com wrote:
> I have been working on Galatians in my personal time and have come upon
> a few  structure puzzles.  The latest, and a stumper to me, is in 2:20.
>  There we  read EN PISTEI ZW THi TOU hUIOU TOU QEOU.  To what does the
> article THi  (dative/locative fem sing) refer?  It seems to have no
> antecedent in this  structure.  The NKJV translates the verse as though
> it reads TWi hUIWi.  I  would prefer to read it :in faith I live to the
> ???? of the Son of God . . .

 Dear Dale,

 The short answer is that a second PISTEI coming after THi is omitted
 because of its proximity to the PISTEI already there. Read as follows:
 EN PISTEI ZW THi [PISTEI] TOU hUIOU TOU QEOU ktl 
 "I live by faith, by the faith of the Son of God, etc".

 ERRWSQE
 Ben
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