FILOTIMOUMENON in Rom 15.20

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Sat Oct 5 12:20:09 EDT 2002


On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:33 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> For George Somsel <Polycarp66 at aol.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:31:51 EDT
>
> hOUTWS DE FOLOTIMOUMENON EUAGGELIZESQAI . . .
>
> In a message dated 10/2/2002 12:31:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> slovullo at mac.com writes:
>
>> Moo, in his commentary on Romans, says that the participle
>> PHILOTIMOUMENON in Rom 15.20 modifies the infinitive PEPLHRWKENAI in 
>> v.
>> 19. This seems to be correct, since the accusative case of the
>> participle agrees with the accusative ME, "subject" of the infinitive
>> in the result clause marked by hWSTE in v. 19. However, does it strike
>> anyone as odd that a participial clause would be appended with DE? I
>> don't recall ever seeing anything like this before.
>>
>
>
> You might consider 1 cor 8.12 where there is an identical phrase with a
> different verb substituting and without an infinitive but with a finite
> verb.
>
> hOUTWS DE hAMARTANOUNTES TOUS ADELFOUS . . . hAMARTANETE
> gfsomsel

Thanks for your reply, George. I think, though, that DE in 1 Cor 8.12 
is continuative rather than copulative, introducing the entire 
following sentence rather than joining the participle hAMARTANONTES to 
hAMARTANETE. I think the punctuation of NT27 is correct here, which 
would end the previous sentence with APEQANEN. So in this case hOUTWS 
modifies hAMARTANOUNTES, which modifies hHAMARTANETE, while DE 
incorporates the whole sentence into the flow of the argument. In Rom 
15.20, though, DE seems to join FILOTIMOUMENON to PEPLHRWKENAI in v.19 
(as Moo says), since there seems to be no other appropriate candidate 
with which to construe FILOTIMOUMENON. DE here seems to have a somewhat 
adversative force, correcting a misconception that could be inferred 
from what Paul just said: "so that from Jerusalem and round about as 
far as Illyricum I have fulfilled the preaching of the gospel of 
Christ, *but* in such a way as to make it my ambition to preach the 
gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on 
someone else’s foundation, but as it is written, 'Those who have never 
been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will 
understand.'"
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI



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