The structure of Gal 2:2

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Apr 22 11:21:12 EDT 2002


At 10:53 AM -0400 4/22/02, Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:
>In Gal 2:2 we have
>
>KAI ANEQEMEN AUTOIS TO EUAGGELION hO KHRUSSW EN TOIS EQNESIN KAT' IDIAN DE
>TOIS DOKOUSIN MH PWS EIS KENON TREXW hH EDRAMON.
>
>My question is whether MH PWS EIS KENON TREXW hH EDRAMON is connected
>to KAT' IDIAN DE TOIS DOKOUSIN or the main clause ANEQEMEN AUTOIS TO
>EUAGGELION? Both yield different meanings.

It's not ANEQEMEN (aor. act. 1 pl.) but ANEQEMHN (aor. midl 1 sg.)

I think that this chapter (as I've argued on previous occasions also) is
very loosely, even colloquially, formulated as if in direct conversation
rather than in a carefully formulated rhetorical discourse. I think that
KAT' IDIAN DE TOIS DOKOUSIN, although adverbial to ANEQEMEN ... EN TOIS
EQNESIN, is almost added parenthetically. If you look back at 2;1, you'll
see that there's not even any antecedent to the AUTOIS, although it clearly
must be people in Jerusalem--but which people? I think it's TOIS DOKOUSIN,
"the reputable ones." My sense of this is as follows: "And I set before
them the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles--but I did it privately
before the reputable ones--for anxiety that I may be running or had run a
futile course." So I'd say that the MH PWS clause should be understood with
ANEQEMHN:
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Carl W. Conrad
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