Re: Re: [B-Greek] Ephesian 1:13a: incomplete sentence?

moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
Fri May 16 00:06:23 EDT 2003


Conrad wrote: 
> The whole text: EN hWi KAI EKLHRWQHMEN PROORISQENTES KATA PROQESIN TOU TA
> PANTA ENERGOUNTOS KATA THN BOULHN TOU QELHMATOS AUTOU 12 EIS TO EINAI hHMAS
> EIS EPAINON DOXHS AUTOU TOUS PROHLPIKOTAS EN TWi CRISTWi. 13 EN hWi KAI
> hUMEIS AKOUSANTES TON LOGON THS ALHQEIAS, TO EUAGGELION THS SWTHRIAS hUMWN,
> EN hWi KAI PISTEUSANTES ESFRAGISQHTE TWi PNEUMATI THS EPAGGELIAS TWi hAGIWi.
> 

> Here the "problem" in
> my opinion is the function of the recurrent prepositional phrase EN hWi. I
> am assuming that the dative relative pronoun here is functioning as a
> demonstrative referring to the antecendent named in EN CRISTWi in verse 10
> and named again in verse 12, so that EN hWi here is equivalent to EN TOUTWi
> and implicitly equivalent to EN CRISTWi. But at the beginning of verse 13a
> the linkage of the EN hWi phrase is a bit murkier than elsewhere within
> these verses--and this, I think, is the source of the problem that Moon
> finds here; in my view this EN hWi is REPEATED--redundantly--after the
> participial phrase AKOUSANTES ... THS SWTHRIAS hUMWN. In sum, I believe
> that Moon's option (2) is the right approach.
> 

Thanks, Carl. I think your explanation makes sense to me.
Now, what would you say to the following question?


> >(3) What is the force of KAI in 13a in front  of hUMEIS?
> >   (a) Does it mean "you also" in contrast to "we" in verses 11 and 12?
> >  
> >   (b) Does KAI modify the whole clause hUMEIS AKOUSANTES ....
> >      so that it means "you, also having heared..."?
> >

Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, 
Seoulk, Korea







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