Gal 6:2 and 6:5 - bearing burdens

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Jul 24 17:37:35 EDT 2002


> Just a brief comment, George. GAR can hardly indicate a conclusion -
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> Iver,
> 
> I think you are getting hung up on technical definitions.  When I 
> stated that 
> it expreses a conclution I was referring to an inference which is 
> to be drawn 
> as is indicated in both BGAD and Louw & Nida.
> 
> BGAD
> GAR (Hom.+; inscr., pap., LXX) conjunction used to express cause, 
> inference, 
> continuation, or to explain. Never comes first in its clause; 
> usu. second, 
> but also third (Hb 11:32), or even fourth (2 Cor 1:19, as e.g. Menand., 
> Epitr. 217; 499; Lucian, Pisc. 10, Philops. 15). 
> 1. cause or reason: for . . .
> 
> Louw & Nida
> 
> 89.23  GAR: a marker of cause or reason between events, though in some 
> contexts the relation is often remote or tenuous—‘for, because.AUTOS GAR 
> EGINWSEN TI HN EN TWi ANQRWPWi ‘for he knew what was in people’ Jn 2.25; 
> EFIGPM A[P TOU MNHMEIOU, EIXEN GAR AUTAS TROMOS KAI EKSTASIS 
> ‘they ran from 
> the tomb, for they were trembling and amazed’ Mk 16.8.

Actually, it is more serious than that. I believe both BGAD and Louw and Nida are mistaken. GAR does not indicate inference, and the few instances they cite for that sense are better analyzed differently.

Iver Larsen




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