[B-Greek] Eph 3:2 EI GE HKOUSATE
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Thu Mar 6 15:47:49 EST 2003
At 02:35 PM 3/6/03 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Is this expressing uncertainty or certainty that they had heard? That
>is, what is the force of the EI GE?
andrew linconln's commentary (WBC) suggests that a reasonable rendering is
"assuming..." he says ei ge occurs only here, eph 4:21, gal 3:4, 2 cor
6:3, and col 1:23 and "introduces a statement which makes explicit an
assumption lying behind a preceding assertion..." demonstrating "confident
assumption".
lincoln is most likely correct.
best
jim
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