reply to Bill Ross on EF hWi
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at mailhost.chi.ameritech.net
Wed Jan 5 13:09:26 EST 2000
Sorry to use the list for essentially a private communication (though it
does speak to the EF hWi issue being raised here), but I keep getting a
returned mail notice/fatal address error every time I reply to Bill
Ross' question.
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In reference to the message duplicated below, Bill Wross wrote:
> I've had some trouble with my email. Have I responded to this?
The answer is yes, you did.
Yours,
Jeffrey
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey B. Gibson
[mailto:jgibson000 at mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 2:25 PM
To: wross at farmerstel.com
Subject: Re: EF hW
Bill Ross wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff.
>
> Thanks for the post.
>
Your welcome.
> Just curious, do you think "because" is a sufficient translation of EF
hW?
>
Depends if you take "because" to be equivalent to "on the basis of" "on
the
grounds of". The expression EF hW seems to be a contract form of EPI
TOUTO
hOTI (the case of the relative pronoun being attracted to that of the
unexpressed antecedent) and the preposition EPI with the dative seems to
me
(see BAGD 287 [II, b, gamma] to express the grounds on which a state of
being, feeling, action, or result is based. This is, after all,
Pauline usage in
2 Cor 5:5 [sic] and Phil 3:12.
May I suggest that you look at the comprehensive view of all the
critical
alternatives given from the earliest commentators until now that you'll
find
either in Cranfield's ICC commentary on Romans (Vol. 1; 274-81) or in
Fitzmyer's Anchor commentary (413-16) See also NTS 39 (1993 (321-339,
esp.
323-328.
Yours,
Jeffrey
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