EAUTOU in ROMANS 5:8

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 19 21:42:42 EDT 2002


Forwarded to B-Greek for George Somsel <Polycarp66 at aol.com>:

>From: Polycarp66 at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:00:38 EDT
>Subject: Re: [b-greek] EAUTOU in ROMANS 5:8
>To: cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
>
>In a message dated 9/19/2002 5:50:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>koine at ev1.net writes:
>
>>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).
>>
>
>
>My condolences on the loss of your NA27.  That can be replaced, but I hope
>you can reconstruct the grading records. 
>
>S.v. hEAUTOU  both BAGD (4) and BGAD (3) deal with this.  I will give you
>BAGD since I have it in electronic form (haven't yet gotten around to
>purchasing the electronic BDAG).
>
>"4. in place of the possessive pron. his, her (Mayser 304f; Mlt. 87f) Mt
>8:22; 21:8; 25:1; Lk 2:39; 9:60; 11:21; 12:36 al"
>
>Note that each of these examples seems still to carry a reflexive sense.
>Perhaps Paul was attempting to distinguish the Father and the Son since he
>states that it is hO QEOS who demonstrates his love hOTI . . . XRISTOS
>hUPER hHMWN APEQANEN. In which case we would have a reflexive sense in
>hEAUTOU.  I would tend to understand it as a possessive.
>
>
>gfsomsel





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