2 Cor 5:21 hAMARTIAN EPOIHSEN

Carlton Winbery winberyc at speedgate.net
Tue Feb 22 22:56:32 EST 2000


Bill Ross wrote;

>    In 2 Cor 5:21, Paul  says:   hAMARTIAN  EPOIHSEN   The KJV has this
>"made him to be sin".   Now in English,  "made sin" is an idiom for "made
>into sin" or "made to stand for" or "made to  represent". I don't see
>anything in the NT that shows that kind of idiom in  Koine. Is there one?
>  Everywhere else  "made to be" is the passive of "to be" as in GINWMEQA
>in the second part of that  same verse.   Might it have any of  these
>literal senses?:   "He did [a]  sin" "He dealt [a]  sin" "He caused [a]
>sin"   (With #2 being the  only one that makes

This involves an expression that occurs often in the NT that most call a
"double accusative."  TON MH GNONTA hAMARTIAN hUPER hHMWN hAMARTIAN
EPOIHSEN The way of handling a double accusative that has both a primary
and secondary object usually involves putting something in between such as
"as," "to be," etc. Some people call these "object compliments." I would
render this one "He made the not having known sin one (to be) sin for us."
Another example would be Luke 19:46 "You have made it (to be) a den of
theives."




Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
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Louisiana College
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