Matth.24:7&11
Barry Hofstetter
nebarry at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 9 09:04:58 EST 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Lo Vullo" <slovullo at mac.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:10 AM
Subject: [b-greek] RE: Matth.24:7&11
>>I have not seen much of a challenge to the "new perspective." But in
the limited time I have, I hope to provide at least some dissent to a
view that seems, for the most part, to be going unchallenged on B-Greek.<<
Steven, good observations and comments.
Let me add a couple of observations of my own: one way to check this is to look
at how the disupted passages are translated into the ancient versions. For
example, the Vulgate translates Eph 1:13
in quo et vos cum audissetis verbum veritatis evangelium salutis vestrae in quo
et credentes signati estis Spiritu promissionis Sancto...
Where *signati estis Spiritu* is indisuputably a passive construction, so that
the passive understanding of the verb has ancient attestation.
Secondly, whenever such arguments arise, one needs to consider the motivations.
What is the source of the arguments? Is this argument coming from investigation
into the general nature of the "morphoparadigm" or does it only seem to be
related to specific passages in the NT? If the latter (and I am making no
specific allegations here), then there may well be theological or hermeneutical
motivations in redefining the normally accepted meaning of the grammatical
forms, rather than a truly grammatical/linguistic motivation.
Just my 2 denarii...
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te...
-- Augustine, Confessions 1:1
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