2 Cor 5:21 hAMARTIAN EPOIHSEN
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Feb 22 22:55:18 EST 2000
At 9:15 PM -0600 2/22/00, 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?
Well, for example (just starting from the beginning of the GNT):
Matt 3:3 hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU, EUQEIAS POIEITE TAS TRIBOUS AUTOU
"make his paths straight"
Matt 4:19 KAI LEGEI AUTOIS: DEUTE OPISW MOU, KAI POIHSW hUMAS hALIEIS
ANQRWPWN "I'll make you fishers of men"
Matt 5:36 ... OU DUNASAI MIAN TRICA LEUKHN POIHSAI H MELAINAN "You can't
make a single hair white or black"
and yes, there are lots more.
>Everywhere else "made to be" is the passive of "to be" as in GINWMEQA in
>the second part of that same verse.
GINWMEQA is not passive but middle; the middle sometimes takes a passive
sense, and there are times were GINOMAI functions as a passive of POIEW,
and I suppose that can be argued here: "we become" = "(with God's help) we
turn into"
>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 sense in context).
Not really. The construction is, quite simply put, a predicate accusative
used with the verb POIEW; it's the same construction as "elect Caesar
consul" where by the action of the verb the object is given the role
indicated by the predicate accusative.
Carl W. Conrad
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