Gal 6:2 and 6:5 - bearing burdens
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Wed Jul 24 13:44:22 EDT 2002
In a message dated 7/24/2002 1:25:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
iver_larsen at sil.org writes:
> In v. 5 we see the conjunction GAR indicating that this is a
> conclusion of
> what precedes which is that each should examine his own works.
> The works one
> does would then seem to be the "cargo" one must bear for himself.
>
> gfsomsel
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.
gfsomsel
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