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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