Lk 18:13; TWi hAMARTWLWi

Steven Lo Vullo doulos at merr.com
Sun Dec 2 01:47:35 EST 2001



On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 12:14  AM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:

> (3) As far as I can tell, the construction personal 
> pronoun-article-adjective occurs 5 times in the NT (Luke 6.24; John 
> 6.70; Rom 15.1; Gal 6.1; Eph 3.8; as I said, Accordance tags hAMARTWLWi 
> in Luke 18.13 as a noun). Keeping in mind the analogy of personal 
> pronoun-article-noun above, I think we can see that understanding the 
> adjectives  in these cases as substantival is not only perfectly 
> natural, but preferable. And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I 
> think taking them attributively involves thinking in English rather 
> than Greek. I can't think of one good reason why we should understand 
> any of these as attributive, especially with the analogy afforded us by 
> the construction with nouns above.

Instead of:

"And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I think taking them 
attributively involves thinking in English rather than Greek."

Read:

"And, again keeping in mind the analogy, I think taking them 
appositively involves thinking in Greek rather than English (as I know I 
will be accused of)."

The lateness of the hour is taking its toll!
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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