Romans 7:3

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Oct 14 16:54:14 EDT 2002


At 8:30 PM +0000 10/14/02, Mark Wilson wrote:
>David:
>
>You wrote:
>
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>>Why is the noun in this clause, MOICALIS CRHMATISEI, in the nominative
>>case?
>>With an active verb, it appears the noun should be accusative unless the
>>noun is the subject or unless the noun is functioning somewhat like a
>>predicate nominative by renaming the subject (despite the active verb).
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>
>MOICALIS is not a noun. It's an adjective.

Although it CAN be adjectival, I'd call MOICALIS a noun in this context
where it is a predicate nominative, and BDAG lists it as such
MOICALIS/-IDOS, hH. CRHMATIZW is a somewhat peculiar verb. BDAG notes under
B2: "2. to take/bear a name/title (as so and so), to go under the name of,
act., but freq. rendered as pass. in Engl. tr.: be called/named, be
identified as." That is CRHMATIZW here works something like German
"heissen" or French "s'appeller." "she will be called an adulteress."
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