Either this or myself needs straightening out
B.J. Williamson
hellen_ic at hotmail.com
Thu May 25 22:53:56 EDT 2000
Passage: Hebrews 12:1a
Issues: Accusative with Nominative?, ellipsis?
TOIGAROUN KAI hHMEIS
TOSOUTON ECONTES PERIKEIMENON hHMIN
NEFOS MARTURWN
I take TOSOUTON as Accusative. I take NEFOS as Nominative.
And for these reasons, it seems unnatural to put them together
as seeming all translations do: such a great cloud.
Would someone confirm or correct my thinking here:
Taking the participle ECONTES as Causal, and TOSOUTON as its Object,
I would have to fill in the missing part:
because we have such a great ________
Taking NEFOS as Nominative, I would like to place it as the subject
of the second participle PERIKEIMENON and treat it appositionally:
a cloud of witnesses surrounding us,
Since Hebrews 11 highlights the heroic examples of many OT saints,
I might suggest that this heroic group fill in the blank of 12:1.
Putting the above together, I have roughly this:
For this very reason, therefore,
because we have such a great (heroic group as an example),
(namely,) a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us ...
The more comments the better, pro or con...
Respectfully,
B.J. Williamson
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