[B-Greek] James 5:16B Followup
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Tue May 13 17:04:11 EDT 2003
Sir:
--- Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
> Waldo Slusher
>
> >POLU ISCUEI DEHSIS DIKAIOU ENERGOUMENH
>
> >Can this mean something like:
>
> >the prayer of a righteous man avails much because
> he
> >energizes it (with action)?
>
> >Taking ENERGOUMENH as reason or cause.
>
> Waldo, ENERGOUMENH agrees with DEHSIS in case gender
> and number. Therefore
> DEHSIS is the subject of the action of the
> participle not the righteous man.
> This is a circumstantial participle and seems best
> to me to be translated
> "the prayer of a righteous person being effective
> avails much" or "The
> effective prayer of a righteous person avails much."
Thank you for this reply. What is the semantical force
of ENERGOUMENH as it relates to DEHSIS, given your
translation of "effective...." In other words, WHAT
makes it effective? Is that unstated in this text or
can some semantical force of ENERGOUMENH answer this
question? I hope I am being clear enough with my
thoughts.
=====
Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB
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