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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