Ephesians 1 sentences

Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Thu Aug 8 14:21:31 EDT 2002


I thought the reason it is not proper to break the sentence at 1:7, 1:11
and 1:13 is because this would result in sentences consisting entirely
of subordinate clauses, not because a sentence cannot begin with a
relative clause beginning with a preposition. My take is similar to
Carl's. This kind of sentence structure reminds me of the beginning of
the Dead Sea Community Rule 1QSa.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew
Poetry)
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> From: Eric S. Weiss [mailto:eweiss at gte.net] 

> If you are right, then it is proper and normal for N-A 26 to 
> put a period before the EN hWi clauses and treat them as the 
> beginning of a new sentence. I'm torn between the rambling 
> linking of liturgical phrases understanding that Carl has 
> quite rightly (to me) noted (not unlike some of the better 
> extemporaneous "prophetic" prayers or glossolalia 
> "interpretations" I've heard in some churches), and the also 
> very valid view that breaks this into sentences -- without, I 
> don't believe, losing anything major in terms of 
> understanding, or even in terms of thinking "in Greek."

> > I know in Latin it's very common--even a mark of style--to 
> > begin what we would have to translate as a new sentence with a 
> > relative pronoun--a relative pronoun that may indeed be the  object
of 
> > a preposition.  I guess I always kind of thought the same thing was 
> > true of Greek.  Is it?

> > Paul O. Wendland




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