[B-Greek] Rom 1:5 (EIS UPAKOHN PISTEWS)

Ben and Jo Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Mon Mar 17 19:25:48 EST 2003


On Mon 17 Mar 2003 (16:11:34), dbielby at bloomingtonvineyard.org wrote:
> Without diverting to a wide array of theological things, are there
> grammars that show EIS may be interpreted this way...or is this
> contextually driven by some factor I'm not picking up on?  Help !?!
 
 EIS can be used as an indication of motive or purpose: EIS hUPAKOHN, unto,
 with a view to, obedience. "Obedience of faith" seems to me to define what
 sort of Obedience we have; it's a "faithful obedience" to God. Compare
 Romans 15:18, where the Apostle recapitulates that his aim is to make the
 Gentiles obedient [to the Gospel] EIS hUPAKOHN EQNWN.

 The identical expression recurs in Romans 16:26, where Paul repeats his
 motive for his preaching of the Word of God. Compare also Hebrews 11:18,
 PISTEI ... ABRAAM hUPHKOUSEN, KTL. His obedience stemmed from his faith.

 C Hodge writes "/Unto the obedience of faith/. These words express the object
 of the apostleship; PISTEWS is either the genitive of apposition 'obedience
 which consists in faith'; or it is the genitive of the source, 'obedience
 which flows from faith'; or it is the genitive of the object, 'obedience to
 faith': i.e. to the Gospel. In favour of the last interpretation reference
 may be made to 2 Cor 10:5 hH hUPAKOH TOU CRISTOU; 1 Pet 1:22 hH hUPAKOH THS
 ALHQEIAS. See Gal 1:23; Acts 6:7; Jude 3 for examples of the use of PISTIS
 in this objective sense. The subjective sense, however, of the word PISTIS
 in the New Testament is so predominant that it is safest to retain it in
 this passage. The obedience of faith is that obedience which consists of
 faith, or of which faith is the controlling principle. The design of the
 apostleship was to bring all nations so to believe in Christ the Son of God
 that they should be entirely devoted to his service. The sense is the same
 id PISTIS be taken obkectively, understood, hoever, not of the Gospel, but
 of the inward principle of faith to which the nations were to be obedient."
 (C Hodge, /Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans/, new edition revised,
 Edinburgh, 1864, p21f).

 ERRWSQE
 Ben
-- 
 Revd Ben Crick BA CF, and Mrs Joanna (Goodwin) Crick
 <ben.crick at argonet.co.uk>
 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK)
 http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm





More information about the B-Greek mailing list