Hebrews 2:9 hOPWS XAPITI QEOU hUPER PANTOS GEUSHTAI QANATOU

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jun 18 13:51:12 EDT 2002


At 1:39 PM -0400 6/18/02, Jonathan Ferguson wrote:
>hOPWS XAPITI QEOU hUPER PANTOS GEUSHTAI QANATOU
>
>Hello,
>      If anyone knows, I was wondering why the KJV has "that he by the grace
>of God should taste death for every man."  (Heb. 2:9).  I was wondering what
>caused them to supply "man."  Some people who believe in limited atonement
>(I personally do not) point out that this verse in the Greek text does not
>contain man (ANQRWPOS), and therefore, "every" is referring to "every" of
>the brethren mentioned in verse 11.  I was wondering if anyone knew of a
>grammatical rule that would aid in understand why "man" is included in the
>KJV.

There's nothing extraordinary here; PANTOS is used substantivally and TOU
ANQRWPOU is clearly enough understood. Older texts of the KJV probably had
"man" in Italics, as I think words supplied in the translation to make good
idiomatic English were generally indicated in parentheses. And it's hardly
likely that the PANTOS of verse 9 should anticipate the PANTES of vs. 11.
-- 

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