adj. or adv. in James 2:24

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Mon Feb 12 00:34:32 EST 2001


> Mark wrote...
> 
> James 2:24
> 
> > hORATE TOINUN hOTI EX ERGWN DIKAIOUTAI ANQRWPOS
> > KAI OUK EK PISTEWS MONON
> 
> > "and not only (justified) by faith."
> > --------------------------------------
> 
> Moon wrote...
> 
> > Here adverb MONON modifies adverb EK PISTEWS. We can
> > render as follows:
> > 
> >  and not (justified)  only by faith.
> 
> [Alan]
> I think Mark's suggestion preserves the TWO
> JUSTIFICATIONS being contrasted; Moon's translation
> seems to be viewing ONE JUSTIFICATION from 'two
> different ways.' James is not disputing a
> justification by faith (vs 23). (Note only that James
> quotes from Gen. 15 in this verse, not Gen. 22)
> 
> I tentatively would opt for the implied verb as Mark's
> translation has it, but also wonder ...
> 
> From a grammatical view, is there any material
> difference had MONON preceded the prepositional
> phrase?
> 
[Moon]
OU MONON EK PISTEWS makes OU negate MONON
so that the rendering would be:

and (justified) not only by faith.

This in fact conveys the same as Mark's rendering:
  and not only (justified) by faith.

The above analysis seems to imply that the rendering of 
the original as "and not (justified) only by faith"
the intended meaning. 

Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea



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