Ign. Eph. 15:3

Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Jan 4 08:45:03 EST 2000


   OK, thanks.  This might work if the sentence was repunctuated with a
full stop after hMWN and the FANHSETAI clause is taken with the preceding
sentence.  Then it would be something like ... and he is our God in us,
which very thing both is and will be manifest before us.  For these
reasons, let us love him in an upright way."

   Do you know of any parallels to this usage?

-- Bart Ehrman


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Alex / Ali wrote:

> Bart Ehrman asked about Ign. Eph. 15:3 where "we read FANHSETAI PRO PROSWPOU
> hMWN, EX hWN DIKAIWS AGAPWMEN AUTON."
> 
> Bart,
> 
> Like Carl, I enjoy your queries.  I think James Ernest was right in taking
> EX hWN as a "rough equivalent for 'therefore' ".  The DIKAIWS and AGAPWMEN
> are interesting, too.  Without knowing the context, I'd be inclined to take
> the AGAPWMEN as (hortatory) subjunctive rather than indicative, and wonder
> if there's justification in taking DIKAIWS not so much as "in a just manner"
> but (roughly) "as is right/fitting", suggesting a gloss such as "so, as is
> right, let us love him".
> 
> Alex Hopkins
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> PS Was there no digest for January 02, 2000?  None received here.
> 
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