[B-Greek] Queries over DIO and GENESIS
Dixon
bereandad2003 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 8 21:13:12 EST 2003
Two lexical questions, if you please:
While doing some theological considerations on Luke 1:35
and Matthew 1:18 (which I will avoid here), I was recently
re-reading about coordinating conjunctions in Dana and
Mantey's "Manual Greek Grammar" and came across these two
interesting sentences regarding the Greek word "DIO" in
paragraph 215:
"This is the strongest inferential conjunction."
and
"DIOPER is twice used (1 Cor. 8:13; 10:14) and it seems
slightly stronger than DIO, having the significance of 'for
which very reason.'"
Would anyone want to comment on the force of the
observation made by D&M? I checked the conjuction in Daniel
Wallace's "Greek Beyond Basics" and he doesn't care to
discuss give that type of attention to DIO, although
without singling out DIO from a group of other "Common
inferential conjuctions" he does grant that such give "a
deduction, conclusion, or summary to the preceding
discussion" (Wallace 673); He parenthetically says, I
assume, of the use of DIO generally although he speaks
about it in Romans 4:25: [It?] "usually follows statements,
making application of them" (Wallace 605, note 55).
Do any of my learned colleagues feel they can affirm THEN
EXPLAIN whether D&M do "protest too much" regarding the
significance of this word DIO. I admit that I have not been
able to find any other resources, including Robertson's Big
Grammar that want to emphasize the conjunction to that
degree.
Additionally, regarding GENESIS, I've noticed also that
some writers want to focus primarily on the lexical
definition of the word as being "origin" as in "Now thus
was the GENESIS [origin] of Jesus Christ" (followed by the
discussion of Mary being found pregnant by means of the
Holy Spirit in Matthew 1:18. It seems to me that "birth"
ought to be an adequate translation, and that if "origin"
is going to be chosen, it is in order to establish, shakily
in my opinion, a theological position based on a lexical
choice that is no more justified than the other one or two
that are given. Thus follows my query, is there anything in
the "straight up Greek" that would demand that the word
GENESIS be translated "origin" as opposed to "birth"?
Look forward to hearing from all of your fertile minds!
Danny Andre' Dixon
M.A. in Bible and Related Studies from Abilene Christian
Univeristy, currently teaching 8th grade English in
Fredericksburg, TX Middle School.
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