ellipsis in Rom 3.8

Steven R. Lo Vullo doulos at chorus.net
Mon Dec 11 22:03:45 EST 2000


On 12/11/00 8:07 PM, Wayne Leman wrote:

> According to the book "An Index of Implicit Information in Acts-Revelation,"
> by Ellis Deibler, (publisher, SIL, website: www.sil.org, see the available
> books section), p. 36, Rom. 3:8 has a missing expressed step in the logical
> argument (your "ellipsis"), namely,
> 
> "_if that objection were valid_, why not ..."
 
Yes, I think something like the above gives the sense in English. What I am
looking for, though, is the verb (including mood) and any modifiers in
Greek. I am diagramming Romans in  Greek, and so want to add the ellipsis in
order to achieve coherence in the diagram.

Thanks,

Steve




More information about the B-Greek mailing list