Rom. 2:6-8--why nominatives in THAT slot?
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Fri Aug 9 15:05:08 EDT 2002
on 8/9/02 11:38 AM, Mike Sangrey wrote:
> Rom. 2:6-8
> hOS APODWSEI hEKASTWi KATA TA ERGA AUTOU
> TOIS MEN KAQ' hUPOMONHN ERGOU AGAQOU
> DOXAN KAI TIMHN KAI AFQARSIAN ZHTOUSIN, ZWHN AIWNION:
> TOIS DE EX ERIQEIAS KAI APEIQOUSI THi ALHQEIAi
> PEIQOMENOIS DE THi ADIKIAi,ORGH KAI QUMOS
>
> Given the parallelism (hopefully highlighted by the formatting) in this
> text, why are ORGH and QUMOS nominatives? I expected accusatives.
Mike,
It is not a parallel construction. Supply a copula and keep in mind that in
Greek the copula doesn't need to be explicit.
Clay
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