EK PISTEWS EIS PISTIN (Ro 1.17)

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Wed Apr 10 00:05:51 EDT 2002


In a message dated 4/9/2002 4:25:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dbielby at juno.com writes:


> If I'm understanding this passage correctly, the lexical entries that
> permit PISTEWS to be translated as faithfulness probably cannot be applied
> to this passage.  Are there any grammars that deal specifically with this
> issue?  I noticed the NIV renders it differently from the NKJV.  Neither
> rendering fits with the phrase 'faithfulness to faith'.
> 
> I really don't know which option is correct...and I cannot remember where
> in my Grammars to look to double check this.  A correlary to this that may
> be off list, but I would be interested to read private notes concerning
> would be the practical theological implications of the three options for
> this phrase...since it's such a key passage to the book of Romans.
> 

DIKAIOSUNH GAR QEOU EN AUTWi APOKALUPTETAI EK PISTEWS EIS PISTIN, KAQWS 
GEGRAPTAI; hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI.

You really should include the text even though most of us look it up anyway.  
That way we can be sure that we're looking at the correct text.

BGAD, s.v., PISTIS has

d. PISTIS is found mostly without an obj., faith—a. as true piety, genuine 
religion (Sextus 7a and 7), which for our lit. means being a Christian: Lk 
18:8 (s. on this Jülicher, Gleichn. 288); 22:32; Ac 6:5=vs. 8 t.r.; cf. 
11:24.-6:7; 13:8; 14:22; 15:9; 16:5; Ro 1:5, 8, 12, 17a, b (EK PISEWS EIS 
PISTIN does not mean a gradation [as, in a way, Appian, Mithrid. 40 §154: 
Sulla came upon hETERON hOMOION EC hETEROU=one wall, i.e., fortification, 
after another similar one] or a transition from one kind to another 
[Himerius, Or.=Ecl. 10, 6 EK WiDHS EIS WiDHN ALLHN METEBALON=they changed 
from one kind of song to another], it merely expresses in a rhetorical way 
the thought that PISTIS is the beginning and the end;

gfsomsel
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