[B-Greek] Heb 3,5 & 6
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 28 21:53:40 EDT 2004
At 5:57 PM -0700 4/28/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>KAI MWSUSHS MEN PISTOS EN hOLWi TWi OIKWi AUTOU hWS
>QERAPWN EIS MARTURION TWN LALHQHSOMENWN
>
>CRISTOS DE hWS hUIOS EPI TON OIKON AUTOU; hOU OIKOS
>ESMEN HMEIS, EANPER THN PARRHSIAN KAI TO KAUCHMA THS
>ELPIDOS KATASCWMEN,
>
>I am wondering if it is possible syntactically for the
>AUTOU of verse 6, in the phrase hWS hUIOS EPI TON
>OIKON AUTOU, to refer to Moses and not Christ? (I am
>questioning whether AUTOU has to refer to the nearest
>antecedent, or if in this instance the subject might
>be Moses' house, of which Christ is OVER it.
I guess that's theoretically possible, but the contextual sequence in 3:6
seems to me to make that view less likely, inasmuch as the OIKOS is said to
includes "ourselves" IF AND ONLY IF (that seems implicit in the EANPER +
subj.) we "keep the faith."
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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