Roman 3:23

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jul 2 13:40:51 EDT 2002


At 11:01 AM -0400 7/2/02, Chong-Huah Lo wrote:
>...    kai  hUSTEROUNTAI  THS  DOXHS  TOU QEOS.
>
>hUSTEROUNTAI   is  present indicative  passive or middle voice.
>
>Roman 3:23  says :
>All come short the glory of God.  or   God's glory is fallen short

No, rather: "all fall short of God's glory" hUSTEROUNTAI is surely middle
voice.
The verb hUSTEREW appears 16x in the GNT, 8x in active forms, 8x in MP
forms, including one QH participle which is indeed middle rather than
passive in meaning. There doesn't really appear to be any difference in
sense between the active and middle: all the forms are intransitive in
sense.
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