Hebrews 2:9 hOPWS XAPITI QEOU hUPER PANTOS GEUSHTAI QANATOU
Kevin W. Woodruff
cierpke at prodigy.net
Tue Jun 18 19:52:59 EDT 2002
Jonathan:
The term PANTOS (from PAS) without the definite article can mean:
(1) w. elative significance, denoting highest degree all, full, supreme,
greatest
(2) w. distributive significance, denoting each individual in a class each,
every, all;
(3) w. summarizing significance, designating everything belonging to a
class all (manner of), every kind of, all sorts of;
4) indefinitely, denoting any individual within a class every, just any,
each and every;
(5) geographically, implying inclusion of all parts of a place all, the whole ;
So Greek can't help you with your problem here. This is a case where the
theology of the translators affected how they chose to translate this
passage. The second Westminster group who translated this portion of the KJV
were Arminian and so they translated it in accordance with the theology.
Kevin
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