EAUTOU in ROMANS 5:8

Mark H. Bahr koine at ev1.net
Thu Sep 19 00:37:25 EDT 2002


Any thoughts on the significance (if any) of Paul's choice of EAUTOU in
Romans 5:8 instead of simply AUTOU or IDIOU?  I just ran across this the
other day in my study and it through me a bit off balance to see the
reflexive used by Paul in that manner (although, I spend so much time on
verbal forms and abstract nouns in my DA studies that I haven't been in the
habit of noting such things, shame on me).  Any thoughts on what kind of
genitive that may be classified as?  It may just be the simple Genitive of
Posession using the reflexive synonomously with the other two forms (BDAG
269), but it did catch my attention.

BTW, a grievious note, my leather NA27 with 2 1/2 years of notes in it was
in my briefcase which got stolen out of my car's trunk the other night
(along with all of this semester's grading records--I'm a TA/Grader).

Mark Bahr
Greek/NT Assistant
The Criswell College
Dallas, TX




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