SUNH added to DIKAIOS - follow-up
Mark Wilson
emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 3 10:18:53 EST 2001
I actually was not overly interested in whether or not
the objective or subjective genitive was in view here, my
interest is more directed toward the translating of
PISTEWS as faithful + ness, as opposed to faith.
I wrote:
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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."
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It seems to me that "faith" is a rather different idea altogether
than "faithfulness." How can PISTIS be translated as BOTH?
In other words, I would have thought that in order to convert PISTIS
into "faithfulness" there would have been a SUNH suffix added to it.
(Just as DIKAIOS.) Or, perhaps some form of PISTOS.
Thank you,
Mark Wilson
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