[B-Greek] Ephesian 1:13a: incomple te sentence?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri May 16 06:34:46 EDT 2003
At 1:06 PM +0900 5/16/03, moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr wrote:
>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..."?
I think that the KAI does indeed mean "you also" and I think there is
indeed a contrast between the preceding hHMEIS and this hUMEIS; I DON'T
think that the KAI works adverbially with AKOUSANTES but
rather--ultimately--with ESFRAGISQHTE: "you also were sealed, after you
heard ... and believed." That is to say, I think that the KAI preceding
hUMEIS is adverbial, while the KAI preceding PISTEUSANTES is a conjunction
linking AKOUSANTES and PISTEUSANTES.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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