Romans 1:16

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 6 16:05:03 EST 2002


Glen:

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>Rom 1:16:  "OU  GAR  EPAISCHUNOMAI  TO EUANGELION  DUNAMIS GAR  THEOU
>ESTIN  EIS  SOTERIAN  PANTI  TO PISTEUONTAI  IUDAIO  TE  PROTON  KAI
>hELLENI."
>
>1. I asked-- "What is the antecedent of  ESTIN?"
>
>Mark said-- "The gospel."  "I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it (the
>gospel) is the power (predicate nominative, agreeing with "it.")"
>
>Q's-- 1) How do we know that the power (DUNAMIS) is the predicate
>nominative and  2) that ESTIN refers back to EUAGGELION?
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I am only guessing here, but I think you are attempting to understand
this in the following manner:

"I am not ashamed of the gospel. For God's power is...."

As you can see, this doesn't work since there is no complete
predicate. More specifically:

For God's power is ___________ resulting in salvation...

And attempting to understand "is ________" as "is it (the gospel)..."
will not work since that would require ESTIN to function as the
predicate nominative, which I would think has no such usage
in the GNT.

So, I think the only option is "I am not ashamed of the gospel,
for it [TO EUANGELION] is God's power..."

BTW, I was really just having fun with the "split infinitive."
Sorry for getting some of us off track.

Mark Wilson




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