hUMAS, Eph 2.1

Daniel Buck dbuck at briercrest.ca
Mon Oct 16 10:09:13 EDT 2000


  Kevin wrote:
  Eph 2:1,
  KAI hUMAS ONTAS NEKROUS TOIS PARAPTWMASIN KAI TAS hAMARTIAIS hUMWN.

  Question: Why is hUMAS accussative? It seems to be the object of an
implied verb, but what verb?

  If you note the parallel structure between verse 1 and verse 5 I would
suggest that the initial thought of verse 1 is resumed in verse 5.  Also the
structure of KAI hUMAS ... KAI hHMAS may be read as both you (Gentiles
believers) ... and we (Jewish believers). Both are dead in trespasses,
though the former situation of the Gentile believers receives further
expansion. But finally verse 5 gives us the verbal thought of this entire
unit, SUNEZWOPOIHSEN TWi XRISTWi both hUMAS and hHMAS.  ONTAS being a
temporal and parenthetical comment setting up the situation of the believers
in contrast with the mercy of God (v. 4) and His above and beyond grace
(v.8)

  Daniel E. Buck
  Assistant Professor of NT/Theology
  Briercrest Bible College
  510 College Dr.
  Caronport, SK. S0H 0S0
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  "If you lack knowledge, what have you acquired? If you have acquired
knowledge, what do you lack?" (Midrash Rabbah Numbers 19.3)

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