hO QEOS in Phil. 3:19

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jan 10 08:55:26 EST 2001


At 2:05 AM +0000 1/10/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>hWN TO TELOS APWLEIA
>hWN hO QEOS hH KOILIA
>KAI hH DOZA EN THi AISCUNHi AUTWN
>
>Is the definite article with QEOS used
>to indicate its grammatical function?
>
>Could the second part above be translated:
>"whose belly [is] their god"

Yes; of course "their" is implicit in the article; since both hO QEOS and
hH KOILIA have articles, it doesn't matter which one you consider the
subject, and which the predicate noun.

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