SUNH added to DIKAIOS
Mark Wilson
emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 3 00:33:51 EST 2001
The following statement appears in the same article by Dr. Wallace that I
referenced
in my previous post:
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Should the genitive CRISTOU be regarded as objective or subjective?
Virtually all modern English translations regard it as an objective
genitive, both in Rom 3.22 and the other Pauline texts: "faith in Jesus
Christ." This is so in spite of an increasing number of scholars who, in the
past few decades, have argued for a subjective genitive "the faithfulness
of Jesus Christ."
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Rom. 3:22a
DIKAIOSUNH DE QEOU DIA PISTEWS IHSOU CRISTOU
It seems to me that the Greeks had a suffix that converted, for example, a
noun (faith)
into an abstract noun (faithfulness), just as in this very verse DIKAIOS
has the abstract suffix SUNH to make righteous "righteousness."
What then is the justification for taking PISTEWS IHSOU CRISTOU as either:
the faithfulness (abstract quality) of Jesus Christ?
In other words, should not the subjective genitive here be:
the faith of Jesus Christ?
Thank you,
Mark Wilson
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