Rom 3:22(Carl, Jasen, Polycarp)

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Mon Feb 28 01:08:59 EST 2000


Polycarp wrote:

NUNI DE CWRIS NOMOU DIKAIOSUNH QEOU PEFANERWTAI MARTUROUMENH hUPO TOU 
NOMOU KAI TWN PROFHTWN, DIKAIOSUNH DE QEOU DIA PISTEWS IHSOU CRISTOU EIS 
PANTAS TOUS PISTEUONTAS..."


I'm wondering why it would be necessary to supply a verb here. It seems to
me that 

DIKAIOSUNH DE QEOU . . .

is in apposition with 

DIKAIOSUNH QEOU PEFANERWTAI

in the previous verse. Thus it would read "God's righteous has appeared . 
.
.[which righteousness of God?] -- God's righeousness through faith 
concerning
Jesus Christ to all who believe."


[Moon]

This reading seems very natural. But I wonder if particle DE
in DIKAISUNE DE QEOU can be used to introduce a phrase that is
to be used as an apposition. Isn't DE a particle connecting a sentence
and another sentence?

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Sogang University,
Seoul, Korea



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