Romans 1:16,17 - The antecedent of EN AUTW

Jon R. Venema 104412.344 at compuserve.com
Sun Feb 13 11:23:47 EST 2000


Message text written by "Carl W. Conrad"
> 
At 6:12 PM -0800 2/12/00, John Wilking wrote:
>F.F. Bruce tried to make the point that APOKALUYAI TON hUION AUTOU EN EMOI
>in Galations 1:16 should or could be translated "reveal his son to me." 
We
>also have FANERON ESTIN EN AUTOIS in Romans 1:19 which James Dunn
translates
>as "is evident to them."  The prepositional phrase seems to be equivalent
to
>the following AUTOIS in the same verse.  It seems that EN may have the
idea
>of "to".  Perhaps it has this meaning when it is collocated with certain
>verbs.

>>Meaning, I suppose, with verbs of showing? I remain quite unconvinced,
>>although I respect Bruce and Dunn; I could accept "among them" or "in
their
>>midst" for EN AUTOIS, but not "to them"; and in Gal 1:16 I could accept
EN
>>EMOI as "by me" or "through my agency" but I'm not yet ready to accept EN
+
>>dative as expressing a dative of reference or indirect object. Again,
with
>>all due respect to Bruce and Dunn, I'd need to see on what basis they
want
>>to argue that EN + dative in those verses has the force of an ordinary
>>dative of indirect object.

>>Anybody else have some input into this question?


Carl,

What do you make of these references in Zechariah 1:9,13,14,17; 2:2,7;
4:1,4,5; 
5:5,10; 6:4,5?  All of the references involvl LALEIN with EN EMOI. 

An associative idea?  The impression, however, comes close to an ordinary
dative of indirect object.  Interesting.

Jon R. Venema
Western Seminary


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