[B-Greek] James 1:3

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Dec 29 20:27:26 EST 2003



Mike Sangrey wrote:

> Hmmmmmmm...
>
> What we would have in a rather literal rendering into English, then,
> would be something like:
>         ...knowing that your faith-kind-of genuineness produces endurance.
>

I'm not so sure that DOKIMION has anything to do with "genuineness" or that
PISTEWS functions adjectivally here.

And surely, given the lead-in to  vs. 3 which speaks of the brethren meeting
PEIRASMOIS, the construction in question has to be rendered  the "testing of
your faithfulness" and what such **tested (and approved) faithfulness**,
produces. In other words, your literal translation misses the point since that
which produces "endurance" is not some kind of "genuineness" (let alone a
"faith kind" -- what ever that is) but a faithfulness  that has proved itself.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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