Truncated Digest
Dr. Dale M. Wheeler
dalemw at multnomah.edu
Sat Apr 20 14:22:12 EDT 2002
Fellow B'Greekers:
Did anyone else's Digest get truncated like mine...see below (its not
complete, and there are at least four other postings after it which were
cut off...
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Subject: Re: Ephesians 5:18-21
From: Polycarp66 at aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:18:26 EDT
X-Message-Number: 21
In a message dated 4/19/2002 5:51:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,=20
kopio at attbi.com writes:
I have been a "lurker" for quite some time now, seeing as I now have a
valid question to ask, I have decided to come out of the shadows! I have
only been studying Greek formally for about 3 years (I'm in my 6th
semester as a NT Greek Major)so please bear with me if I'm asking a
question that might seem obvious to all.
I have recently been studying Eph 5:18-21 where Paul is talking about
being spirit filled. My question is this...The four participial clauses
Paul hangs off the word PLHROUSQE, what are they doing? Are they carrying
the force of the imperative, making them nearly equvalent to an
imperative? Are they the manner in which one expresses being "Spirit
filled." Is Paul using them as four examples of what being "Spirit
filled" looks like? What exactly are these clauses doing? Any help or
insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Welcome to the light! I hope our (ahem) brilliance doesn't blind you. :-)
The participles would indicate attendant circumstances. Here's a SHORT=20
(thanks to Carl & Carlton) section from Wallace on the subject.
A. Dependent Verbal Participles
This is far and away the larger of the two categories and includes the=20
following subcategories: adverbial (or circumstantial), attendant=20
circumstance, indirect discourse, complementary, periphrastic, and redundant=
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Research Prof., Biblical Languages Multnomah Bible College
8435 NE Glisan St. Portland, OR 97220
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