Romans 1:16
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 8 00:20:49 EDT 2002
Carlton wrote this
> Rom 1:16: "OU GAR EPAISCHUNOMAI TO EUANGELION
> DUNAMIS GAR THEOU
> ESTIN EIS SOTERIAN PANTI TO PISTEUONTAI IUDAIO
> TE PROTON KAI
> hELLENI."
>
> First, ESTIN is a verb and does not have an
> antecendent. If we understand the
> subject as "it" then it can have an antecedent.
This caught my attention primarily because of the
wording.
I know it is true in "English" that verbs to do
have antecedents. But I have noticed that Greek
finite verbs are completely different animals than
the English variety.
ESTIN is not "is" but "he/she/it is". And, at least
in English, he/she/it is a pronoun and ALWAYS has
an antecedent, even if it is an implied one.
My Greek teacher uses the expression that "a finite
verb agrees with its subject/noun".
Technically speaking, Carlton, is your statement
"ESTIN is a verb and does not have an antecendent" an
English statement or a Greek one? It seems to me that
every Greek verb has a Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) attached
to the ending, and therefore every Greek verb has an
antecedent.
Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AL
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